Cannot copy a link to an external device?

[Gerald Dachs]

Quoting tchomby <tchomby at bluebottle.com>:

> Quoting Ralf Doering <rdoering at netsys-it.de>:
>> 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.
>
> Aha. It is not my drive but a friends, but I think it is indeed one   
> of those Windows filesystems.
>
> What filesystems do support symbolic links? Obviously, an external   
> drive formatted with a linux filesystem would support it. But if   
> that's not possible, then what about burning to a CD or DVD?
>
> I guess there is no way to copy links onto something like a USB   
> thumb drive, because these are always FAT.

This is not generally true, because you could reformat it to another
fs. Anyway, put all files including the links into a tar archive and write
that to the usb thumb drive.

Gerald

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