symbolic link in USB disk

[Yuandan Zhang]

On 2/6/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


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.

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