go1fish, You mentioned that you have an ext3 microSD card (I assume it's 100% ext3 and not a small fat partition and a large ext3 as is recommended by Easy Debian for automounting) that you have to mount manually in Xterm - can you tell us how you go about mounting it in Xterm? Have you noticed any other inconveniences besides the mounting not being automatic? Have you tried to automate this process in anyway? I know in regular linux you have some init scripts in which you can systematically put such a mount command but I'm not so familiar with the Maemo flavored linux... Thanks -=AC=-