symbolic link question

vpv · 10-23-2005, 02:08 PM

Here's what i do:

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?

Thanx everyone, who tries to help!

blindcoder · 10-23-2005, 02:27 PM

If it is really ext2 it shouldn't be a problem.
Can you please paste the output of this:

Code:

mount

Greetings,
blindy

vpv · 10-24-2005, 02:05 PM

Quote:

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

blindcoder · 10-24-2005, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by vpv

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) 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.

Greetings,
Benjamin

vpv · 10-25-2005, 01:12 AM

Heey, thanx very much! So that was it - vfat. Well, one more question then:

Can I change /mnt/windows from vfat to ext2 or ext3 without loosing my data?

Thank you!

Regards,

vpv

blindcoder · 10-25-2005, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by vpv
Can I change /mnt/windows from vfat to ext2 or ext3 without loosing my data?

Not on-the-fly, no. You have to copy the data somewhere, then create the filesystem and then copy the data back.

Greetings,
Benjamin

vpv · 10-25-2005, 04:02 AM

Ok - I got it! Thank you very much for the help!

Greetings,

vpv