Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Ubuntu11.04 : cp: cannot create symbolic link: Operation not permitted


The problem is because your destination device doesn't support the symbolic link creation, mainly because of it's format. In my case, the destination device format was Fat-32. Then there are 2 options:

1. Format your destination device with a format that support the symbolic link creation like NTFS format. And try again the cp command

2. Copy the entire file instead of the symbolic link, using -L option in the cp command:

cp -rL source_dir dest_dir

Resource:
http://diogomelo.net/node/46

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