[1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 14 10:58:00 GMT 2009
On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209
> 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7.exe). I
> am starting zsh and get the following error: "zsh: failed to create hard
> link as lock file /home/thorsten/.zhistory.LOCK: operation not
> permitted".
>
> This relates to the following setting in .zshrc: "HISTFILE=~/.zhistory".
> Zsh starts but no history is available. Cygwin is located on a FAT32
> thumb drive.
That's why. FAT32 does not support hardlinks.
Corinna
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