Symbolic links in FAT32
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Hey there, guys! So, messing around with my Pi3, I decided to try and move DraStic’s save folder to the USB drive, mimicking the behavior of all the other emulators. For those who don’t know, that emulator’s save folder is located at /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup. Fixing that up was simple enough, just make a symbolic link to the desired folder in the USB drive and you’re done:
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/SAVES /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup(I’m using the auto-mount feature for USB drives, so my drive’s
/retropie-mountmounts to/home/pi/RetroPie/)All is good and dandy, BUT... There is this one rom I use that is a simple hack of another one (basically a Pokémon hack that lets you trade-evolve monsters without trading), and I used to use that in the simplest way possible: by pointing its save file to the original rom save via symlink! However, now that I moved the saves to my USB drive, which is of course formatted in FAT32, I can’t create symlinks IN THE USB DRIVE!
So I turn to you, my fellow piemen. Can you think of any workaround for that? I mean, I could always keep the original emulator folder intact and simply symlink to individual files in my USB drive, but doing that to every single rom can get tedious... Any ideas for automating the process?
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@larkas Why don't you move the whole drastic save folder to the USB ? Maybe it's possible with configuration.
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@mitu Alas, that wouldn’t solve my issue. I’d still be unable to symlink under FAT32. :/
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