Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-bk9 -- vfat32 fails | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:13:57 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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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. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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