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Ask Question _ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign ubuntu filesystem does not support symbolic links up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Why can't I copy symbolic links? up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 cp: cannot create symbolic link ‘/xyz/pdq’: Operation not permitted So, I'm trying to copy one directory to a Veracrypt encrypted USB stick. Command I used was: cp cannot create symbolic link operation not permitted -aL /source /destination I've also tried: cp -ad /source /destination I looked at the problem links and they don't link outside the copied directory tree. Clue? symlink cp copy share|improve this question asked Jan 11 at 16:45 user447607 1334 1 What filesystem are you using inside the Veracrypt partition? –David King Jan 11 at 17:06 The file system is ext4 –user447607 Jan 11 at 18:26 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote Just for you I played with Veracrypt(never heard the name before :D). Have you formatted the drive as FAT? Then thats your problem. When Veracrypt asks you, format it as NTFS instead of FAT and then try again. FAT32 unfortunately does not support owner, permissions or symlinks. That is why you are getting an Operation not permitted error. Note that this error is not “permission denied”: “operation not permitted” often means “operation not supported”, i.e. nobody can do this. share|improve this answer edited Jan 11 at 22:52 Gilles 371k696751126 answered Jan 11 at 19:09 Siddharth Pant 411 Thanks siddharth and @Gilles . “operation not p

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WS 7.1.x)? KarstenGresch May 3, 2011 11:20 PM Trying to create a symlink with ln -s [target path] [symlink name] on Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254678/why-cant-i-copy-symbolic-links guests:user@ubuntu:/mnt/hgfs/db-win/dev/ws$ sudo ln -s /home/user/develop/ws /mnt/hgfs/db-win/develop/ws/ubu_vmln: Creating symbolic link „/mnt/hgfs/db-win/develop/ws/ubu_vm": Operation not supported This is independent of whether I run with root permissions (sudo) or as normal user.Host is Windows 7 64bit. My question: Is it possible to create symbolik links on hgfs shares at all???I saw http://communities.vmware.com/thread/297284 as https://communities.vmware.com/thread/312591?start=0&tstart=0 well as http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1007277&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=179149990&stateId=0%200%20179151533, but they don't really match.So - is there a way to create symlinks on a Linux guest's shared folder and - if so - which one?Thanks,Karsten 21626Views Tags: none (add) ubuntuContent tagged with ubuntu, linuxContent tagged with linux, guestContent tagged with guest, shared_folderContent tagged with shared_folder, hgfsContent tagged with hgfs, windows_7Content tagged with windows_7, symlinkContent tagged with symlink, vmware_workstation_7Content tagged with vmware_workstation_7, ln_sContent tagged with ln_s, symbolic_linkContent tagged with symbolic_link, windowsContent tagged with windows, windows_hostContent tagged with windows_host, linux_guestContent tagged with linux_guest This content has been marked as final. Show 28 replies 1. Re: How to create symlinks on a Linux guest's shared folder (VM WS 7.1.x)? mbeierl May 5, 2011 7:48 AM (in response to KarstenGresch) HGFS is a presentation of the host file system to the guest operating system. As the Windows and Linux concept of links are quite different, it is

here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack http://superuser.com/questions/584146/why-is-this-archive-failing-to-create-symlinks Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10085?cversion=1&cnum_hist=16 power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Why symbolic link is this archive failing to create symlinks? up vote 1 down vote favorite When I extract the archive Symfony_Standard_2.2.1.tgz using this command: $ tar xzf /home/tomas/downloads/Symfony_Standard_2.2.1.tgz I always get the errors: tar: doctrine.php: Cannot create symlink to `../vendor/doctrine/orm/bin/doctrine.php': Operation not supported tar: doctrine: Cannot create symlink to `../vendor/doctrine/orm/bin/doctrine': Operation not supported tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Why is it failing to create the symlinks? $ tar --version tar symbolic link operation (GNU tar) 1.23 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (squeeze) Release: 6.0.7 Codename: squeeze debian symbolic-link tar share|improve this question asked Apr 17 '13 at 16:20 Hubro 1,61862857 4 To which filesystem are you extracting? I'm guessing it's one that doesn't support symlinks? Like FAT –BloodPhilia Apr 17 '13 at 16:29 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote accepted BloodPhilia's comment said it all. I didn't consider the fact that I'm working on a VMware shared folder from a Windows machine with NTFS partitions. Extracting the archive anywhere on the virtual machine works fine. share|improve this answer answered Apr 17 '13 at 17:11 Hubro 1,61862857 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote I'm coming a bit late to this party, but had the same problem yesterday. If the filesystem does not support symlinks and you despite want all the contents from the archive to be accessible, it might be a workarou

5 years ago Last modified 14 hours ago making a symlink fails on a shared folder with EROFS Reported by: win32asm Owned by: Priority: major Component: shared folders Version: VirtualBox 4.1.8 Keywords: symlink, shared folders Cc: Guest type: Linux Host type: all Description (last modified by klaus) (diff) it is impossible to create a symlink within a shared folder from guest OS. guest shell output: [user@centos sf_sources]$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0") /dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) sources on /media/sf_sources type vboxsf (gid=501,rw) [user@centos sf_sources]$ ln ./test ./test2 ln: creating hard link ./test2' => ./test': Operation not permitted [user@centos sf_sources]$ ln -s ./test ./test2 ln: creating symbolic link `./test2': Read-only file system [user@centos sf_sources]$ touch test2 [user@centos sf_sources]$ ls test* test test2 host FS for the shared folder is ext4. same operation worked fine in ver. 4.1.6 Change History comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by rwstandridge I can verify this behavior. I just downgraded from 4.1.8 to 4.1.6 because of it. My details host: Max OSX 10.6.8 guest: (K)Ubuntu $ uname -a; cat /etc/issue Linux moore-u64 3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:28:43 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l Host fs for shared folder is hfs. comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by mig5 I reproduce this too. Host: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) Guest: Debian 6 (Squeeze) You *can* touch and modify files in a shared folder, on the guest, which confirms that the sh