If you are trying to create a symbolic link (Linux-style) on the actual FAT32 filesystem, then I think you are just plain out of luck. I doubt that even Linux can force the FAT32 filesystem to understand a linux style symbolic link. It's just not in the file system semantics.
K
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:57 AM, Marcus Claesson wrote:
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!
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