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Is possible to make symbolic links in the android filesystem? (and how?)

Thanks in advance :) .

(My Android version is 2.1 , i'm using Motorola Defy)

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android is not a fileystem. What is the filesystem on which you try to create the symplink? You can use mount in terminal emulator to gather this information – rds Feb 14 at 10:50
@rds I know that Android is not a file system. I wrote "Android file system" instead of "Android's file system" because I was writting too fast. – castarco Feb 27 at 14:52
but you still fail to tell what it the underling filesystem you have mounted – rds Feb 27 at 22:20

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I think this question on superuser answers your question, i.e. that the FAT filesystem on the SD card does not support symlinks.

Just to clarify (and as reflected in the SU question/answers I linked): the Android OS supports symlinks, but the FAT filesystem on the SD card does not.

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You're always free to format your SD Card with a modern filesystem (if you don't use it on an archaic operating system, of course) – rds Feb 14 at 10:23
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Android does support symbolic links, but certain file systems (e.g. FAT or RFS) does not and you cannot create symbolic links in those partitions. If your device uses a filesystem that supports symbolic links (e.g. ext2, ext3, ext4, yaffs2) then you should be able to use ln -s from the Terminal Emulator.

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It is possible to do this via the mount -o bind /old/dir /new/dir command as discussed here http://superuser.com/a/377737/45344

You need root I guess.

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