cannot create symlinkoor change permission in a mounted fat32 drive

Cii · 03-05-2005, 09:57 PM

here's the line fstab file

Code:

/dev/hda6            /windows/D           vfat       users,gid=users,exec,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0

this happens even if i'm logged in as root. It would rock if someone would help me fix this because then i could actually install come of the application in there to save some space in my / drive.

thanks.

PS. if it helps, i was trying to install matlab 7.

Matir · 03-05-2005, 10:14 PM

FAT 32 filesystems do not support symlinks or permissions/ownership. Therefore, being unable to create them should not be surprising.

Cii · 03-06-2005, 11:22 AM

thanks for the info. now i am looking for different options. namely resizing one of my fat32 partitions and creating a new reiserfs partition (done). Now to mount that one.

Matir · 03-06-2005, 01:44 PM

That should be sufficient.