Re: 2.5.64-bk9 -- vfat32 fails

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 18:13:57 EST

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"sean darcy" <seandarcy@hotmail.com> said:
> 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 has no way to represent a symbolic link, so an error is just to be
expected. Perhaps the wording isn't optimal.

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