Fedora Users — Re: Not allowed to create link on mounted FAT32 partition

Let me further clarify (or muddy up) that. Symbolic links are an ext2 filesystem feature. You can make a symbolic link that exists on an ext2fs partition that connects to any other file system, regardless of type. If you have another file system that supports symbolic links, the same would hold. I have several symbolic links on my ext3 partition that connect to directories on my FAT partition. But like Brian said, you cannot make a symbolic link on a FAT filesystem, regardless of what link points to.

Brian Richardson wrote:

Because FAT32 partitions don't support symbolic links.
On 10-Jul-04, at 3:20 PM, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
Greetings,
I have a FAT32 partition mounted as /mnt/windows/D as per the below fstab statement:

/dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows/D vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
It's mounted at startup.
This mount allows ordinary users to read and write to the partition. But I've run into a problem when trying to make a link to a folder (right click in Nautilus and select "make link") - then I get an error message "Operation not permitted while creating a link..."

This problem also manifests itself when I run Azureus (Bittorrent client) - it tries to allocate space on the volume before starting download of a file and fails with the same "operation not permitted" message.
Why am I allowed to write to the partition but not create a link?
thanks,
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