>
> 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
[01;34mcommon[0m [01;32mdoit.bat[0m [01;34mframe[0m [01;34mnetcard[0m [01;34mspecs[0m [01;34mtest[0m [01;34mtestnet[0m [01;34musnet[0m
[01;34mdisc[0m [01;34mflash[0m [01;34mlib[0m [01;34mshield[0m [01;34mstdbus[0m [01;34mtest_dis[0m [01;34mtools[0m
# pwd
/root/foo
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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