GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336177
"not permitted" to make link to dir on fat32 sata partition
Last modified: 2013-04-22 19:47:24 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.
Hello Duncan, FAT filesystems don't support symlinks, the dialog should state that instead of a generic "Operation not permitted"
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.
(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 ***