Why can't I create a symbolic link?

[f4phantomii]

The stock browser downloads to /sdcard/download

Steel uses /sdcard/downloads

I'd like steel to use the default browser location.

I tried "ln -s /sdcard/download /sdcard/downloads"

I tried the busybox ln -s.

I tried with system mounted as RW.

I get operation not permitted. What am I missing?

[deserttopping]

Maybe you could do this with a card reader in Linux? Or even just connect via USB and mount the SD?

[mye2096]

your /sdcard partition is FAT or FAT32 filesystem, which does not have support for symlinks. you can only create symlinks on filesystems that supports it like yaffs2 or ext2, ext3, etc....


The stock browser downloads to /sdcard/download

Steel uses /sdcard/downloads

I'd like steel to use the default browser location.

I tried "ln -s /sdcard/download /sdcard/downloads"

I tried the busybox ln -s.

I tried with system mounted as RW.

I get operation not permitted. What am I missing?

[f4phantomii]

Doh! Now I feel like an idiot. The FAT32 issue should have been obvious. Thanks for the explanation.