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Rockbox General => Rockbox General Discussion => Topic started by: plion on June 11, 2014, 08:45:56 AM

Title: symlink
Post by: plion on June 11, 2014, 08:45:56 AM

Do it is possible in RB to use symlink, hardlink, alias as in os file system?

Title: Re: symlink
Post by: nick_p on June 11, 2014, 10:54:51 AM

No, FAT doesn't support hard or soft links.

Title: Re: symlink
Post by: [Saint] on June 11, 2014, 07:13:29 PM

I'm going to reply here since OP was very vague and the assumption that the target device is using FAT32 as its file system (although incredibly likely) is not an absolute.

If this is a device that runs Rockbox as a firmware replacement, then, no - you're stuck with FAT32 which means no hard/symbolic links.

If this is a device that runs Rockbox as a hosted platform, for example Android, or Maemo, or SDL, and isn't using FAT32 for the media storage volume, then yes, you can use hard/symbolic links and Rockbox won't care in the slightest.


[Saint]