Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
Not even linux can create symlinks on FAT32
Posted 11-05-2014 at 01:04 AM by the dsc
If you've only briefly dealt with NTFS on linux, you might have noticed that it's possible to create symlinks there, not like the fake "shortcuts", but actual symlinks, that linux read as such.
That may lead the naive mind to think that symlinks are a linux/OS-side feature, and that therefore linux could create symlinks on FAT32. But that's going to be proven wrong on the first attempt.
You can, however, have symlinks on non-FAT partitions pointing to a FAT location.
That's something to have in mind if one plans to have a "hybrid" install or just use FAT for the sake of MS portability (and speed over NTFS, perhaps better linux support overall).
That may lead the naive mind to think that symlinks are a linux/OS-side feature, and that therefore linux could create symlinks on FAT32. But that's going to be proven wrong on the first attempt.
You can, however, have symlinks on non-FAT partitions pointing to a FAT location.
That's something to have in mind if one plans to have a "hybrid" install or just use FAT for the sake of MS portability (and speed over NTFS, perhaps better linux support overall).
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