On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:38 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > I have usb 2.0 disk with vfat on it. I'm unable to create symbolic links > > or change permissions, such as chmod 777. I'm guessing its because it's > > vfat, but wanted to make sure before I go to the trouble of moving the > > data and reformatting the drive to ext2 or ext3. > > > > Can anyone verify that vfat is the problem? > > Yes, you're completely right. Vfat doesn't have support for such things. > > James. Thanks. I have recreated the disk with ext3 and all is good. I do remember putting vfat on it for portability, but this drive will stay on this machine indefinitely. James
