Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:17:17 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-bk9 -- vfat32 fails |
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"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.
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