Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Dear FreeSurfer Team,
I am attempting to run Recon-all on practice cannabis data on the tutorial, using Ubuntu18 VM for Windows os (also I completely new to coding and Ubuntu).
On my first attempt to run Recon-all, I got the error shown below: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted."
mris_curvature -w -seed 1234 lh.white.preaparc
setting seed for random number generator to 1234 total integrated curvature = 25.993*4pi (326.639) --> -25 handles ICI = 146.8, FI = 1524.9, variation=23628.367 writing Gaussian curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.K...done. writing mean curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.H...done. @#@FSTIME 2022:05:05:23:34:15 mris_curvature N 4 e 1.66 S 0.10 U 1.30 P 84% M 144988 F 3 R 39631 W 0 c 13 w 718 I 616 O 0 L 1.08 1.11 1.08 @#@FSLOADPOST 2022:05:05:23:34:17 mris_curvature N 4 1.08 1.11 1.08 rm -f lh.white.H ln -s lh.white.preaparc.H lh.white.H ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted Linux developer-VirtualBox 5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 09:48:52 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
recon-all -s sub101-sesBL exited with ERRORS at Thu May 5 23:34:17 EDT 2022
For more details, see the log file /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/sub101-sesBL/scripts/recon-all.log To report a problem, see http://secure-web.cisco.com/1qOeaquoMOTkikWpYGZ4Zmm7T4aU7IdoLWz_R7WjwgxWoQGx...
After searching through the archives, I see that other people have had the same problem in that their os is not able to create a symbolic link. I tried following one of the archives and did:
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/mv-ds000174-1.0.1-Cannabis/sub-101/ses-BL/anat$ cd /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ ln -s /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/fsaverage ln: failed to create symbolic link './fsaverage': Operation not permitted
But I again received the "failed to create symbolic link. How can I allow symbolic links? Also, I was generally wondering how do you rerun recon-all starting from a specific step once I get this working? Does one have to rerun all of recon-all each time there is an error or can I start from where I left off?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes, Joanna
Hi Joanna,
Is it possible you've run out of disk space? What's the output of `df --si`?
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:33 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Dear FreeSurfer Team,
I am attempting to run Recon-all on practice cannabis data on the tutorial, using Ubuntu18 VM for Windows os (also I completely new to coding and Ubuntu).
On my first attempt to run Recon-all, I got the error shown below: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted."
mris_curvature -w -seed 1234 lh.white.preaparc
setting seed for random number generator to 1234 total integrated curvature = 25.993*4pi (326.639) --> -25 handles ICI = 146.8, FI = 1524.9, variation=23628.367 writing Gaussian curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.K...done. writing mean curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.H...done. @#@FSTIME 2022:05:05:23:34:15 mris_curvature N 4 e 1.66 S 0.10 U 1.30 P 84% M 144988 F 3 R 39631 W 0 c 13 w 718 I 616 O 0 L 1.08 1.11 1.08 @#@FSLOADPOST 2022:05:05:23:34:17 mris_curvature N 4 1.08 1.11 1.08 rm -f lh.white.H ln -s lh.white.preaparc.H lh.white.H ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted Linux developer-VirtualBox 5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 09:48:52 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
recon-all -s sub101-sesBL exited with ERRORS at Thu May 5 23:34:17 EDT 2022
For more details, see the log file /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/sub101-sesBL/scripts/recon-all.log To report a problem, see MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BugReportinghttp://secure-web.cisco.com/1qOeaquoMOTkikWpYGZ4Zmm7T4aU7IdoLWz_R7WjwgxWoQGxY3cPBUDVV4WjL1HTzvXW83WzudLxHfUxd3VMjIW_onAfNPXVndE-taWDHNlTvxXSVt2XAWWGqV2_tqFc6xj1PgghG-vQD5NzYL7fMWU0fWUyVO3gu-hnNg-Nlw0SYtMFHU1Mpf_ezbHxFnHKFMhZR7-V9ztKJPq48qnxSxdaYp3f90UN5PtdDDL_YToCmUoLNZzThrPogT-MkRuyqenk7hzKn-vnr1u89-jcjkzLqvD1Zlp4rCTKFLJ1mv-WZ7GImSBJ-q_-ejSRyOeOLlCao4_RYJXLprXzFkq51bQ/http%3A%2F%2Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Ffswiki%2FBugReporting
After searching through the archives, I see that other people have had the same problem in that their os is not able to create a symbolic link. I tried following one of the archives and did:
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/mv-ds000174-1.0.1-Cannabis/sub-101/ses-BL/anat$ cd /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ ln -s /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/fsaverage ln: failed to create symbolic link './fsaverage': Operation not permitted
But I again received the "failed to create symbolic link. How can I allow symbolic links? Also, I was generally wondering how do you rerun recon-all starting from a specific step once I get this working? Does one have to rerun all of recon-all each time there is an error or can I start from where I left off?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes, Joanna
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Hi Paul,
I have everything on my Data (D:) drive because my OS (C:) drive was already nearly full when I began this process of downloading FreeSurfer and knew it wouldn't have enough space. Is that a problem that I am using the D: drive? (I am not too familiar with the differences between the two).
Pasted below is the output of df --si.
Thank you for your help! Joanna
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ df --si Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev tmpfs 835M 1.6M 833M 1% /run /dev/sda1 216G 21G 185G 10% / tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519 /dev/loop1 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72 /dev/loop3 47M 47M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15534 /dev/loop2 46M 46M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15177 /dev/loop6 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/726 /dev/loop5 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/920 /dev/loop4 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/741 /dev/loop7 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77 /dev/loop9 254M 254M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/70 /dev/loop8 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/174 /dev/loop10 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1434 /dev/loop11 132k 132k 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop12 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515 /dev/loop13 656k 656k 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/106 /dev/loop15 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2128 /dev/loop14 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/163 /dev/loop16 261M 261M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99 /dev/loop17 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2344 /dev/loop18 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/884 /dev/loop19 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1376 tmpfs 835M 17k 835M 1% /run/user/121 tmpfs 835M 46k 835M 1% /run/user/1000 shared 1.1T 48G 953G 5% /home/developer/guest_shared
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Joanna Eckhardt
Neurosciences Graduate Program
University of California, San Diego
________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Wighton, Paul PWIGHTON@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 10:55 AM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
Hi Joanna,
Is it possible you've run out of disk space? What's the output of `df --si`?
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:33 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Dear FreeSurfer Team,
I am attempting to run Recon-all on practice cannabis data on the tutorial, using Ubuntu18 VM for Windows os (also I completely new to coding and Ubuntu).
On my first attempt to run Recon-all, I got the error shown below: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted."
mris_curvature -w -seed 1234 lh.white.preaparc
setting seed for random number generator to 1234 total integrated curvature = 25.993*4pi (326.639) --> -25 handles ICI = 146.8, FI = 1524.9, variation=23628.367 writing Gaussian curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.K...done. writing mean curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.H...done. @#@FSTIME 2022:05:05:23:34:15 mris_curvature N 4 e 1.66 S 0.10 U 1.30 P 84% M 144988 F 3 R 39631 W 0 c 13 w 718 I 616 O 0 L 1.08 1.11 1.08 @#@FSLOADPOST 2022:05:05:23:34:17 mris_curvature N 4 1.08 1.11 1.08 rm -f lh.white.H ln -s lh.white.preaparc.H lh.white.H ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted Linux developer-VirtualBox 5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 09:48:52 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
recon-all -s sub101-sesBL exited with ERRORS at Thu May 5 23:34:17 EDT 2022
For more details, see the log file /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/sub101-sesBL/scripts/recon-all.log To report a problem, see MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be http://secure-web.cisco.com/14hambhZcwlHm-TUI0wi8GmzTNRhNjDTjrHO81ZQzO0DprnW...https://secure-web.cisco.com/1mX0S_1U9rFCbkiVp0N_Pcm4q_okK0Skpv-zzF13uuNL5JY50TzOGA_z1jtxyWeo5lV2myg1ka02lMf6o7Ee1CRDSQY-TRDBT8-YW_gMQNaB0yY79dBgw0EbWLaAwNonTm1AzojTpHHFEEZYrFteKaDv8g9QjJzZKMKiv4mPN_DkQYnELk9S8zSC0k_94yK0gaRXNRi3WeOKeLIDJJzfyuB-m4pIE0TmbBvTQSJCwQmqPxWCu_G93xbAbhZ9gTeCRVPLebKSxuqH5oAeHthCQaNQ2WQ7abJfxT52_4el1wAP0slKqEWf02cTn9rqkoX58/https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttp-3A__secure-2Dweb.cisco.com_1qOeaquoMOTkikWpYGZ4Zmm7T4aU7IdoLWz-5FR7WjwgxWoQGxY3cPBUDVV4WjL1HTzvXW83WzudLxHfUxd3VMjIW-5FonAfNPXVndE-2DtaWDHNlTvxXSVt2XAWWGqV2-5FtqFc6xj1PgghG-2DvQD5NzYL7fMWU0fWUyVO3gu-2DhnNg-2DNlw0SYtMFHU1Mpf-5FezbHxFnHKFMhZR7-2DV9ztKJPq48qnxSxdaYp3f90UN5PtdDDL-5FYToCmUoLNZzThrPogT-2DMkRuyqenk7hzKn-2Dvnr1u89-2DjcjkzLqvD1Zlp4rCTKFLJ1mv-2DWZ7GImSBJ-2Dq-5F-2DejSRyOeOLlCao4-5FRYJXLprXzFkq51bQ_http-253A-252F-252Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu-252Ffswiki-252FBugReporting%26d%3DDwMFAg%26c%3D-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA%26r%3DVOzaW5NbE-ma6Pc9pAKE20dZgxgmYGpxFACLfTD0LGQ%26m%3DTt_OQmgivGZKdychcXZS8aYKY019srF_YPdbXpJmkvyZM1_uzkw7WaXxVf77AfB2%26s%3D7PYLDUC0bc3JEa0oLNpToB7Njy6ugas78U41yjrUCYQ%26e%3D
After searching through the archives, I see that other people have had the same problem in that their os is not able to create a symbolic link. I tried following one of the archives and did:
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/mv-ds000174-1.0.1-Cannabis/sub-101/ses-BL/anat$ cd /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ ln -s /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/fsaverage ln: failed to create symbolic link './fsaverage': Operation not permitted
But I again received the "failed to create symbolic link. How can I allow symbolic links? Also, I was generally wondering how do you rerun recon-all starting from a specific step once I get this working? Does one have to rerun all of recon-all each time there is an error or can I start from where I left off?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes, Joanna
Hmm, ok that's not the issue. You have plenty of free disk space (185Gb)
Is the folder /home/developer/guest_shared shared with the host OS (windows)? That could be the issue as windows does not support symbolic links. Could you try changing the subject's directory to something that is not shared with the host OS?
e.g: ``` mkdir -p /home/developer/fs-subjects export SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/developer/fs-subjects ```
And then try running recon-all again?
My apologies. This is my fault as I originally suggested that location for the subjects directory. Also, thanks to R. for his help diagnosing this issue!
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 2:00 PM To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Hi Paul,
I have everything on my Data (D:) drive because my OS (C:) drive was already nearly full when I began this process of downloading FreeSurfer and knew it wouldn't have enough space. Is that a problem that I am using the D: drive? (I am not too familiar with the differences between the two).
Pasted below is the output of df --si.
Thank you for your help! Joanna
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ df --si Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev tmpfs 835M 1.6M 833M 1% /run /dev/sda1 216G 21G 185G 10% / tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519 /dev/loop1 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72 /dev/loop3 47M 47M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15534 /dev/loop2 46M 46M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15177 /dev/loop6 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/726 /dev/loop5 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/920 /dev/loop4 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/741 /dev/loop7 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77 /dev/loop9 254M 254M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/70 /dev/loop8 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/174 /dev/loop10 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1434 /dev/loop11 132k 132k 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop12 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515 /dev/loop13 656k 656k 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/106 /dev/loop15 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2128 /dev/loop14 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/163 /dev/loop16 261M 261M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99 /dev/loop17 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2344 /dev/loop18 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/884 /dev/loop19 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1376 tmpfs 835M 17k 835M 1% /run/user/121 tmpfs 835M 46k 835M 1% /run/user/1000 shared 1.1T 48G 953G 5% /home/developer/guest_shared
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Joanna Eckhardt
Neurosciences Graduate Program
University of California, San Diego
________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Wighton, Paul PWIGHTON@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 10:55 AM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
Hi Joanna,
Is it possible you've run out of disk space? What's the output of `df --si`?
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:33 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Dear FreeSurfer Team,
I am attempting to run Recon-all on practice cannabis data on the tutorial, using Ubuntu18 VM for Windows os (also I completely new to coding and Ubuntu).
On my first attempt to run Recon-all, I got the error shown below: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted."
mris_curvature -w -seed 1234 lh.white.preaparc
setting seed for random number generator to 1234 total integrated curvature = 25.993*4pi (326.639) --> -25 handles ICI = 146.8, FI = 1524.9, variation=23628.367 writing Gaussian curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.K...done. writing mean curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.H...done. @#@FSTIME 2022:05:05:23:34:15 mris_curvature N 4 e 1.66 S 0.10 U 1.30 P 84% M 144988 F 3 R 39631 W 0 c 13 w 718 I 616 O 0 L 1.08 1.11 1.08 @#@FSLOADPOST 2022:05:05:23:34:17 mris_curvature N 4 1.08 1.11 1.08 rm -f lh.white.H ln -s lh.white.preaparc.H lh.white.H ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted Linux developer-VirtualBox 5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 09:48:52 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
recon-all -s sub101-sesBL exited with ERRORS at Thu May 5 23:34:17 EDT 2022
For more details, see the log file /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/sub101-sesBL/scripts/recon-all.log To report a problem, see MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BugReportinghttps://secure-web.cisco.com/1mX0S_1U9rFCbkiVp0N_Pcm4q_okK0Skpv-zzF13uuNL5JY50TzOGA_z1jtxyWeo5lV2myg1ka02lMf6o7Ee1CRDSQY-TRDBT8-YW_gMQNaB0yY79dBgw0EbWLaAwNonTm1AzojTpHHFEEZYrFteKaDv8g9QjJzZKMKiv4mPN_DkQYnELk9S8zSC0k_94yK0gaRXNRi3WeOKeLIDJJzfyuB-m4pIE0TmbBvTQSJCwQmqPxWCu_G93xbAbhZ9gTeCRVPLebKSxuqH5oAeHthCQaNQ2WQ7abJfxT52_4el1wAP0slKqEWf02cTn9rqkoX58/https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttp-3A__secure-2Dweb.cisco.com_1qOeaquoMOTkikWpYGZ4Zmm7T4aU7IdoLWz-5FR7WjwgxWoQGxY3cPBUDVV4WjL1HTzvXW83WzudLxHfUxd3VMjIW-5FonAfNPXVndE-2DtaWDHNlTvxXSVt2XAWWGqV2-5FtqFc6xj1PgghG-2DvQD5NzYL7fMWU0fWUyVO3gu-2DhnNg-2DNlw0SYtMFHU1Mpf-5FezbHxFnHKFMhZR7-2DV9ztKJPq48qnxSxdaYp3f90UN5PtdDDL-5FYToCmUoLNZzThrPogT-2DMkRuyqenk7hzKn-2Dvnr1u89-2DjcjkzLqvD1Zlp4rCTKFLJ1mv-2DWZ7GImSBJ-2Dq-5F-2DejSRyOeOLlCao4-5FRYJXLprXzFkq51bQ_http-253A-252F-252Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu-252Ffswiki-252FBugReporting%26d%3DDwMFAg%26c%3D-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA%26r%3DVOzaW5NbE-ma6Pc9pAKE20dZgxgmYGpxFACLfTD0LGQ%26m%3DTt_OQmgivGZKdychcXZS8aYKY019srF_YPdbXpJmkvyZM1_uzkw7WaXxVf77AfB2%26s%3D7PYLDUC0bc3JEa0oLNpToB7Njy6ugas78U41yjrUCYQ%26e%3D
After searching through the archives, I see that other people have had the same problem in that their os is not able to create a symbolic link. I tried following one of the archives and did:
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/mv-ds000174-1.0.1-Cannabis/sub-101/ses-BL/anat$ cd /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ ln -s /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/fsaverage ln: failed to create symbolic link './fsaverage': Operation not permitted
But I again received the "failed to create symbolic link. How can I allow symbolic links? Also, I was generally wondering how do you rerun recon-all starting from a specific step once I get this working? Does one have to rerun all of recon-all each time there is an error or can I start from where I left off?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes, Joanna
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Hi Paul,
That was definitely the issue! I had originally shared that folder between Windows and Ubuntu because it was in the tutorial for setting up VM, but I changed the directory to a non-shared folder, and recon-all finished without error.
Thank you Paul and R for all of your help!
All my best, Joanna
--
Joanna Eckhardt
Neurosciences Graduate Program
University of California, San Diego
________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Wighton, Paul PWIGHTON@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 11:59 AM To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
Hmm, ok that's not the issue. You have plenty of free disk space (185Gb)
Is the folder /home/developer/guest_shared shared with the host OS (windows)? That could be the issue as windows does not support symbolic links. Could you try changing the subject's directory to something that is not shared with the host OS?
e.g: ``` mkdir -p /home/developer/fs-subjects export SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/developer/fs-subjects ```
And then try running recon-all again?
My apologies. This is my fault as I originally suggested that location for the subjects directory. Also, thanks to R. for his help diagnosing this issue!
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 2:00 PM To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Hi Paul,
I have everything on my Data (D:) drive because my OS (C:) drive was already nearly full when I began this process of downloading FreeSurfer and knew it wouldn't have enough space. Is that a problem that I am using the D: drive? (I am not too familiar with the differences between the two).
Pasted below is the output of df --si.
Thank you for your help! Joanna
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ df --si Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev tmpfs 835M 1.6M 833M 1% /run /dev/sda1 216G 21G 185G 10% / tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519 /dev/loop1 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72 /dev/loop3 47M 47M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15534 /dev/loop2 46M 46M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15177 /dev/loop6 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/726 /dev/loop5 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/920 /dev/loop4 787k 787k 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/741 /dev/loop7 230M 230M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77 /dev/loop9 254M 254M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/70 /dev/loop8 2.8M 2.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/174 /dev/loop10 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1434 /dev/loop11 132k 132k 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop12 69M 69M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515 /dev/loop13 656k 656k 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/106 /dev/loop15 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2128 /dev/loop14 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/163 /dev/loop16 261M 261M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99 /dev/loop17 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2344 /dev/loop18 2.7M 2.7M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/884 /dev/loop19 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/core20/1376 tmpfs 835M 17k 835M 1% /run/user/121 tmpfs 835M 46k 835M 1% /run/user/1000 shared 1.1T 48G 953G 5% /home/developer/guest_shared
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Joanna Eckhardt
Neurosciences Graduate Program
University of California, San Diego
________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Wighton, Paul PWIGHTON@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 10:55 AM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
Hi Joanna,
Is it possible you've run out of disk space? What's the output of `df --si`?
-Paul ________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Joanna L Eckhardt jeckhardt@health.ucsd.edu Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:33 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Error: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted"
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Dear FreeSurfer Team,
I am attempting to run Recon-all on practice cannabis data on the tutorial, using Ubuntu18 VM for Windows os (also I completely new to coding and Ubuntu).
On my first attempt to run Recon-all, I got the error shown below: "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted."
mris_curvature -w -seed 1234 lh.white.preaparc
setting seed for random number generator to 1234 total integrated curvature = 25.993*4pi (326.639) --> -25 handles ICI = 146.8, FI = 1524.9, variation=23628.367 writing Gaussian curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.K...done. writing mean curvature to ./lh.white.preaparc.H...done. @#@FSTIME 2022:05:05:23:34:15 mris_curvature N 4 e 1.66 S 0.10 U 1.30 P 84% M 144988 F 3 R 39631 W 0 c 13 w 718 I 616 O 0 L 1.08 1.11 1.08 @#@FSLOADPOST 2022:05:05:23:34:17 mris_curvature N 4 1.08 1.11 1.08 rm -f lh.white.H ln -s lh.white.preaparc.H lh.white.H ln: failed to create symbolic link 'lh.white.H': Operation not permitted Linux developer-VirtualBox 5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 09:48:52 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
recon-all -s sub101-sesBL exited with ERRORS at Thu May 5 23:34:17 EDT 2022
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After searching through the archives, I see that other people have had the same problem in that their os is not able to create a symbolic link. I tried following one of the archives and did:
developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/mv-ds000174-1.0.1-Cannabis/sub-101/ses-BL/anat$ cd /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects developer@developer-VirtualBox:~/guest_shared/fs-subjects$ ln -s /home/developer/guest_shared/fs-subjects/fsaverage ln: failed to create symbolic link './fsaverage': Operation not permitted
But I again received the "failed to create symbolic link. How can I allow symbolic links? Also, I was generally wondering how do you rerun recon-all starting from a specific step once I get this working? Does one have to rerun all of recon-all each time there is an error or can I start from where I left off?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes, Joanna
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