Symbolic link operation prohibited

[ExarKunIv]

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi3
RetroPie Version Used 4.4
Power 5 v 2.5 a
Built From: Image from RetroPie site

Hi all.

I have done this before on older versions but i cant get a symlink to work to link my PSX folder on my SD card to a PSX folder on my 128 gig USB drive

I use

sudo ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx /media/usb0/psx

and i get this back

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/media/usb0/psx/psx': Operation not permitted

i also tryed to use

 sudo ln -sf /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx /media/usb0/psx

with the same out come.
kinda lost on why it is giving me this. i have also deleting the folders and still nothing.

hope someone can point what im doing wrong. i have done this before
and looked at the link for running roms off of USB. i dont want to run them all. just the PSX folder

Thanks

[mitu]

I don't think symbolic links work on FAT32 filesystems - such as the one on your USB drive. Plus, I think you're doing it the other way around - it should be

ln -s /media/usb/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx

From ln(1):

ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME

[..] create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME [...]

[ExarKunIv]

@mitu

yea i was just about to update that. lol
i was looking at that and was like. i think i have it wrong.

sorry about that all.

and yes the symbolic links work on FAT32 :)

[BuZz]

@exarkuniv They don't - the link is not on the FAT32 partition in this case though. It's on the ext4 root partition.

[mitu]

@exarkuniv said in Symbolic link operation prohibited:

and yes the symbolic links work on FAT32 :)

No they don't - that's why you got the error when you tried to create the link in reverse.

[ExarKunIv]

oh. i see