Hello everyone!
I have been fiddling with Version 6 and I have been encountering some difficulty copying Freesurfer folders onto my usb, because my usb cannot write "symbolic links". There are four of them produced by Freesurfer: lh.white.H , lh.white.K, rh.white.H, and rh.white.K.
My question is whether these links are important to qdec or other Freesurfer analysis programs, such that me copying files that don't contain them will result in errors down the line?
Also, I recognize that I could reformat my usb to UDF and be able to copy symbolic links. I tried this, but I found out that my Freesurfer is running on a very old version of Fedora that doesn't support UDF. So, until I get around to reinstalling Linux on this older computer, I am stuck with my limitations.
You can use the -H flag when copying 'cp -RH' and it will follow the symlink's target rather than copying the symlink itself.
But either way that symlink exists in the subjects/bert folder and the existence of those symlinks is inconsequential to the actual running of qdec or other programs, as long as you are analyzing a different subject.
On 11/19/2016 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Crawford wrote:
by Freesurfer: lh.white.H , lh.white.K, rh.white.H, and rh.white.K.
My question is whether these links are important to qdec or other Freesurfer analysis programs, such that me copying files that don’t contain them will result in errors down the line?
Also, I recognize that I could reformat my usb to UDF and be able to copy symbolic links. I tried this, but I found out that my Freesurfer is running on a very old version of Fedora that doesn’t support UDF. So, until I get around to reinstalling Linux on this older computer, I am stuck with my limitations.
Thank you for the info. It definitely puts some ease on my situation.
-----Original Message----- From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Z K Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 9:14 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Importance of Symbolic Links?
You can use the -H flag when copying 'cp -RH' and it will follow the symlink's target rather than copying the symlink itself.
But either way that symlink exists in the subjects/bert folder and the existence of those symlinks is inconsequential to the actual running of qdec or other programs, as long as you are analyzing a different subject.
On 11/19/2016 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Crawford wrote:
by Freesurfer: lh.white.H , lh.white.K, rh.white.H, and rh.white.K.
My question is whether these links are important to qdec or other Freesurfer analysis programs, such that me copying files that don't contain them will result in errors down the line?
Also, I recognize that I could reformat my usb to UDF and be able to copy symbolic links. I tried this, but I found out that my Freesurfer is running on a very old version of Fedora that doesn't support UDF. So, until I get around to reinstalling Linux on this older computer, I am stuck with my limitations.
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