RE: Hardlinks/SymLinks in the vfat filesystem?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:01:42 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

>
> On 04-Feb-99 Riley Williams wrote:
> > Can I ask whether Hardlinks or SymLinks are supposed to work in the
> > vfat file system?
>
> No. Vfat doesn't have any notion remotely related to symlinks or hard links.
>

Note that you can make an ext2-fs simlink that points to a file or
directory on a mounted MS-DOS file system!

Script started on Thu Feb 4 16:59:18 1999
# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 1973472 1287999 583462 69% /
/dev/sdc3 2082225 68930 1905660 3% /home/users
/dev/sda1 1048272 195024 853248 19% /dos/drive_C
/dev/sda5 1046224 91040 955184 9% /dos/drive_D

# ln -s /dos/drive_C/bomb foo
# cd foo
# ls
common doit.bat frame netcard specs test testnet usnet
disc flash lib shield stdbus test_dis tools
# pwd
/root/foo

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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