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Bug 336177 - "not permitted" to make link to dir on fat32 sata partition
"not permitted" to make link to dir on fat32 sata partition
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47894
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-27 11:48 UTC by Duncan Lithgow
Modified: 2013-04-22 19:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Duncan Lithgow 2006-03-27 11:48:12 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
For cross platform access with win2000 I store all non-system files in a fat32
logical partition on my secondary SATA drive.

Error report is:

Error "Operation not permitted" while creating a link to "/media/sda...gy/reports".

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select a directory on a fat32 formatted logical partition of a sata connected
(secondary) drive, mounted at boot in fstab with umask=000
2. Right click directory and select "Make link"
3. notice error report


Actual results:


Expected results:
That a link is created to the directory.

Does this happen every time?
So far.

Other information:
Don't know if these are relevant:
1. Some partition managers (not gparted, but qtparted, Partition Magic, and
fedora core 5's DiskDruid) complain about, quote: 'a rather strange layout' on
the SATA drive.
2. I have not yet succeeded in getting win2000 to recognise and mount this
partition.
Comment 1 Fabio Bonelli 2006-10-13 12:27:12 UTC 
Hello Duncan,

FAT filesystems don't support symlinks, the dialog should state that instead of a generic "Operation not permitted"
Comment 2 Duncan Lithgow 2006-10-13 20:36:45 UTC 
In that case I'd like to make an RFE.

Could it go on the to-do list for nautilus to implement some linking mechanism to directories/ files on vfat partitions? I assume it can be done somehow - explorer does it in windows.
Comment 3 António Fernandes 2013-04-22 19:47:24 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> FAT filesystems don't support symlinks, the dialog should state that instead of
> a generic "Operation not permitted"

The current error dialog does that:
----------------------------------------------------------
     .     
    / \    Error while creating link to foobar.
   / ! \   
  /_____\  The target doesn't support symbolic links.
  
                                     [ Cancel ] [ Skip ]
----------------------------------------------------------

(In reply to comment #2)
> Could it go on the to-do list for nautilus to implement some linking mechanism
> to directories/ files on vfat partitions? I assume it can be done somehow -
> explorer does it in windows.

Windows "links" are *.lnk files, also known as "shortcuts". Support for handling these shortcuts has been requested as bug 47894.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47894 ***