>>>> Can I ask whether Hardlinks or SymLinks are supposed to work in
>>>> the vfat file system?
>>> No. Vfat doesn't have any notion remotely related to symlinks or
>>> hard links.
>> Note that you can make an ext2-fs simlink that points to a file or
>> directory on a mounted MS-DOS file system!
> Yeah but that's because you're creating in ext2 which is clueful
> about such things. for vfat you'd have to create an evil
> translator that takes .lnk files and translates them to symlinks
> and vice versa. And it would have to do it transparently. And
> then you'd have to wonder what windows would think of a .lnk
> file that pointed to a partition it doesn't think exists. :)
> Sounds like fun to me. :)
You've assumed we regarded them as SymLinks there - if we regarded
them as HardLinks, then they are limited to always referring to the
partition they themselves are in, the same as all other hard links...
Best wishes from Riley.
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