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10-30-2007, 03:12 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2007
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 8
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Cannot make symbolic link from vfat to ext3
Hi,
I've just installed Slackware 11.0 and my problem is that i cannot make symbolic links. The scenario is like this:
I installed Slackware 11.0, installed Gnome and some other progs and because i have other pc's running Windows, one of the disks is fat. In /etc/fstab this hard disk entry is:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/fat16 vfat noauto,owner,users,umask=000 0 0
so that everyone is able to rw to that disk. The problem is that i cannot make a symbolic link from that folder (vfat) to my Desktop (ext3). The message when i try to make the symbolic link is:
command: ln -s epipleon.odt test
reply: ln: creating symbolic link `test' to `epipleon.odt': Operation not permitted
If i go to the /mnt folder and ls within, i get:
drwxrwxrwx 16 adioniso users 16384 1970-01-01 02:00 fat16/
so i guess all permissions are ok. What else could be wrong? As user i can mount/umount this partition without problems.
Thanks in advance,
Argi
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10-30-2007, 03:24 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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A symbolic link is a special kind of entry in a filesystem table, and so the table needs to support the features to do this. vfat can't handle the data, just like it can't handle posix permissions (rwxr-xr-w) etc... there's just nowhere for that data to go.
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10-30-2007, 03:41 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2007
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 8
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So, the only way to make that link is either to copy the file to an ext3 disk and create the link, or copy the file to my Desktop, correct?
Thanks!
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10-30-2007, 04:08 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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sounds like it. you can symlink to somtehgin on the vfat, as the destination plays no part in the link itself, but you can't come from it.
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