Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Symbolic or Hard Link in a FAT32 drive?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:42:44 -0800 (PST)
> Basically...can I create Symbolic or Hard Link in a FAT32 drive

Given that the FAT32 file system does not, as far as I know, support the
notions of

	1) symbolic links

or

	2) hard links

the answer is, as far as I know, "no".

> mounted on a Linux Folder?

I don't know whether UMSDOS:

	http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html

works atop FAT32.  If it does, it *might* let you do symbolic and hard
links on a DOS file system if that's really what you want (as opposed to
just using, say, ext2).

I have never used it, so I cannot make any recommendations about it,
e.g. whether it's something you really *want* to use, or tell you what
problems using might cause.