From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "sean darcy" <seandarcy@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.64-bk9 -- vfat32 fails
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:17:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030315121717.45da96e7.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F52RDT6Z3LstPGtPrPr000001a9@hotmail.com>
"sean darcy" <seandarcy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm getting this error on a large vfat partition:
>
> lsattr /win/photo/scanner.test
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on
> /win/photo/scanner.test/frame4-atTableSep02.psd
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on
> /win/photo/scanner.test/frame2-atTableSep02.psd
>
> I found this because I couldn't create a soft link (ln -s ) on the
> partition. FWIW, ls -l does not show a problem.
>
vfat/msdos/fat filesytems do not support symlinks.
lsattr is an ext2/ext3-specific command. It dives under the
standard unix/posix interfaces and talks to the filesystem
driver directly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-15 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-15 17:51 sean darcy
2003-03-15 20:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-15 23:13 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-15 18:45 sean darcy
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