Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

From	"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problem selecting options for cp command
Date	2016-09-05 15:10 +0200
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Hi,

Richard Owlett wrote:
> /media/richard/test   is a USB flash drive
> I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
> encountered.

Maybe the filesystem is of a type which does not support symbolic links ?

  $ cp -R ./test/softlinks /mnt/fat
  cp: cannot create symbolic link ‘/mnt/fat/softlinks/irrelang’: Operation not permitted


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 14:40 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 14:50 +0200
    Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 14:50 +0200
    Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 16:30 +0200
      Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 16:30 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
    Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:10 +0200
    Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 15:30 +0200
      Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:40 +0200
  Re: Problem selecting options for cp command "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-05 15:10 +0200

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