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. Sven -- 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/87y657pxhm....@turtle.gmx.de