Hello All A couple of weeks ago I hacked the program v7 from the bostic_tools to work under all sorts of different Unix versions. It worked great and allowed me to snoop around the V7 file system images from native Linux. Anyone who wants a copy can send me an e-mail. Anyway I had a few hours spare today, and decided to try adding the V7 filesystem to the Linux kernel. Results so far are encouraging: g4klx:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /mnt total 333 drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 224 Sep 22 1988 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Feb 14 11:55 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 2512 Sep 22 1988 bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 3 3 8986 Jun 8 1979 boot drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 160 Sep 22 1988 dev drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 336 Sep 22 1988 etc -rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 53302 Jun 8 1979 hphtunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 52850 Jun 8 1979 hptmunix drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 192 Sep 22 1988 lib drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 96 Sep 22 1988 mdec -rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 50990 Jun 8 1979 rkunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 51982 Jun 8 1979 rl2unix -rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 51790 Jun 8 1979 rphtunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 51274 Jun 8 1979 rptmunix g4klx:/usr/src/linux# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 3031184 1920771 953665 67% / /dev/loop0 1919 1877 42 98% /mnt g4klx:/usr/src/linux# I am using the loop block device to allow me to mount a file as a block device, this saves me having to add a new partition to my disc. There should be no reason why it won't work with a true disc partition. The V7 filesystem under Linux is read/write. Anyone interested ? Jonathan