According to Eduard Hoenkamp: >I simply do not manage to set the permissions on files on (non-boot) >partitions under OSX 2.2.4 That's because, as it says right there in Disk Utility, Repair Disk Permissions only works on OSX boot disks, so, unless you have a version of OSX on the other partitions, the files on those partitions cannot have their permissions changed. ~flipper