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root@localhost#ln -s foo.c foolink
inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags: Operation not permitted
Why am i not allowed to make a symbolic link? Could this have something to do with the attributes of the partition - in my case hda6 of type ext2? How can I see what are the present attributes of hda6? How and to what should i change them? Is this the problem at all?
Originally posted by blindcoder
Can you please paste the output of this:
Code:
mount
Sure! Here it is:
Code:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/hd type supermount (rw,dev=/dev/hdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1)
And I'm trying make a symb. link in /mnt/windows (nothing to do with windows -- it's just the name) and I get:
ln: Creating a symbolic link ...:Operation not permitted
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
XXX /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) XXX
none on /mnt/hd type supermount (rw,dev=/dev/hdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1)
And I'm trying make a symb. link in /mnt/windows (nothing to do with windows -- it's just the name) and I get:
ln: Creating a symbolic link ...:Operation not permitted
There you are: vfat doesn't support symbolic links. Actually, none of the MS filesystems do.
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