On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-22 21:14 +0100, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been >> doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But >> now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting "cannot create symlink" >> and "operation not permitted." > > Looks like the card is formatted with an unsuitable filesystem > (e.g. FAT32). > >> Does anyone have any idea why I can create and save files on this CF card >> and cannot make symlinks on it? > > Most probably because the filesystem on the card does not support > symlinks.
You're right on target with that. This is part of a program to install Squeeze on an embedded system and a Compact Flash card wasn't working, so I made a quick trip out to buy a few more. In that time I forgot I had commented out the command in the code to partition the CF card and format the partition. The report I got from sfdisk had the same numbers for the partition size as what I was specifying, so I saw the numbers and assumed it was okay -- without realizing it specified the FS was FAT. So it was my fault -- I forgot my program was not formatting and read the numbers and not the additional data. It's behaving nicely now. Thanks for picking up on something that was so obvious I missed it! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9b2c27ee-3cf8-420d-b606-32b4c0cd0...@halblog.com
