I'm confirming this after reproducing it with a clean loop mounted image - vim works without an error, but gedit gives this error.
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- gedit error "Could not create a backup file" when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/69184 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs