VFAT is a Windows file system. Symbolic links (or any other kind of links except Windows shortcuts) are not within the file system's capabilities. When Linux creates a link on a ext file system, it must link to the target. If the target is on a FAT file system, a corresponding entry into the table cannot be created because FAT has no Super Block. So, an attempt to link will fail every time because of the design limitations of FAT.
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Subject: Can't create symbolic links in mounted vfat partition
From: Marcus Claesson <m.claesson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 24 Oct 2003 14:57:59 +0100
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Hi,
I'm having problem doing certain things to my vfat (WinXP,FAT32)
partition from RedHat 9.
It's mounted like this
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,fmask=777,dmask=777,user=marcus)
It looks like this:
[marcus@miah marcus]$ ll /mnt/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 14:26 cdrom
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 32768 Jan 1 1970 windows
I can write to it as root, and as another user I can read but not write
to it,
not even as 'marcus'.
I think it has to do with the same thing as that I can't create links on
this
partition:
[root@miah windows]# ln -s file.txt file_link
ln: creating symbolic link `file_link' to `file.txt': Operation not
permitted
Does anyone out there know how I should mount this partition so these
things
will work. Really appreciate any help!
Regards,
Marcus
