Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 04:14:37 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 permitt

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
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 "cann

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [I didn't mention many the kFreeBSD file systems, but that's just because > I'm > not familiar with running on kFreeBSD.] Debian/kFreeBSD uses UFS2 (Universal File System version 2) which also fully supports posix syntax for symlinks. C-

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 14:14:37 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

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
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

Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
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." I bypassed tar and tried creating some of the symlinks by