Re: Linux, ext2 vs fat32

[Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>]

I have NFS mounts on my laptop from my desktop machines, all in a
folder.  From these mountpoints, I can create symbolic links:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 jack users 20 Feb 12 15:55 jack -> /network/rocky/jack//

This will work regardless of whether the USB drive is FAT32 or EXT2.

Just as a side note, you are aware that the fmask and dmask keywords are
umasks, right?  In other words, they're the inverse of the permissions
you are seeking (7 for an octal permission would translate into a umask
of 0).

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:54 -0600, bentley.rhodes wrote:
> k.  i have a theory.  after formatting my poor little usbdisk and 
> constantly renaming the /etc/fstab file entry from 'usbdisk' to 
> 'tyeblen', i've decided the following:
> *  leave the fstab entry alone, it won't listen to me.
> *  ext2 will allow me to make softlinks to the usbdrive from one folder 
> to another, but fat32 won't.  sound right?  for instance:
> /media/usbdisk/bntly_rhds/misc/file
> /media/usbdisk/bntly_rhds/progs/softlink'd file
> 
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