Re: problem creating symbolic link

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden 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.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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