Hi Folks,

I got this symlink creation problem... I'm doing it as root. What's going on? Its an SD card formatted to FAT32

[CODE cut+ awk -F / {print $NF}
+ echo /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/M-20240225_235922_0002/2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv
-c 1-10
+ DAY=2024-02-26
+ mkdir -p /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/DAILY/2024-02-26
+ awk+ echo /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/M-20240225_235922_0002/2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv
-F / {print $NF}
+ FILE=2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv
+ ln -s /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/M-20240225_235922_0002/2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/DAILY/2024-02-26/2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv
ln: /media/sdmmc/mmcblk0p1/RECORD/DAILY/2024-02-26/2024-02-26__08_08_14.mkv: Operation not permitted
[/CODE]

FAT32 does't support links of any kind.

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I see. Thanks!

Do you think that it can be solved somehow without changing from FAT32?

Well, one can modify FAT directory entry to point to the starting cluster of the existing file essentially creating a hardlink, but it is against FAT specifications, any disk-checking utility will flag this as a cross-link error and you'll probably loose your data if you delete any of these entries, so I wouldn't recommend it and you'd have to use disk hex editor to do it. Apart from that, no. Also creating links which include absolute mount point is not a good idea even on filesystems which support links - mount points change.

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