Cannot copy a link to an external device?

[Ralf Doering]

tchomby <tchomby at bluebottle.com> writes:

> If you make a link in Ubuntu (by right-clicking on a file or folder
> and choosing Make link) then you cannot copy that link to an external
> device. Nautilus will say: Error "Operation not permitted." Grsync
> seems to just silently skip them.

What type of filesystem does your external device contain? If it is
FAT/VFAT/FAT32 or NTFS, you simply can't store links on it, because
these filesystems do not support symbolic like Linux (and hence Ubuntu)
does.

Ralf