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Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Problem selecting options for cp command
Date 2016-09-05 15:30 +0200
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On 9/5/2016 7:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
>> encountered.
>
> That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks.
>

That may have been the problem. It's possible the flash drive HAD 
BEEN formatted FAT-32. No way to tell now as I brute forced wiped 
drive by having gparted format it as ext2.

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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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