<div>On 2/6/06, Ian Malone <<a href="mailto:ibmalone@gmail.com">ibmalone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Yuandan Zhang wrote: > Hi, I have a usb disk and mounted using this command in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/USBG vfat > exec,noauto,users,rw,shortnam e=mixed 0 0 > > Symbolic link is not permitted in this mounted disk. How to make symblic > link permittable on this disk? The FAT filesystem won't support symbolic links, although you can still make symlinks to files on a FAT fs from file systems that do support them. If you really want to do this you'd need to reformat it as something like ext2/3 or Reiserfs etc. I'm not sure why you'd want to know, as the link probably won't be meaningful when you plug the USB disc into a different machine.</blockquote><div> thanks for info. I used to have a ntfs of this disk, but I can't write on it. that's why I converted it to FAT fs. I want symbolic links because i use this disk as a clony of a work dir for backup and homework purposes. there are a number of internal symblic links in that. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- imalone -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com"> fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>