-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/26/2006 8:20 AM: > Hi > I have a problem creating a symbolic link in the /dos/ partition > (fat32) of the linux. I can create elsewhere but not here. I am using > Mandriva 2006 and I need to work on the dos partition because I > visualize the results in windows. Please help.
The fat32 file system is very primitive, and does not natively support symbolic links. There is nothing coreutils can do if the kernel refuses to create the symlink because the file system doesn't support it. You should also be aware that if you have to interact with Windows, NTFS is a slightly better file system, and that the Windows operating system does not support symlinks (at least, not any released version), whether or not the underlying file system does. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEoKjy84KuGfSFAYARAv6GAJ4kfO0Ko/E3n48k0ztze3jUPT8aNwCeMF85 5U7es4NFTQ/CNzjdt1vyJmI= =rNB4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
