Re: Can't create symbolic links in mounted vfat partition

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Marcus,

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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