exFAT installation compatibility

[Biziol]

Hello,

For compatibility reasons with all operating systems, I always format my removable media with exFAT. However, during the installation process of express with the command: "sudo npm install express", I get the error: -1, it says it is an administration problem.

However, if I try to copy my project folder to documents on my operating system or format the USB drive to ntfs and run "sudo npm install express" again, the problem disappears.

I think it may also be useful for you to know that if I copy my project folder to documents on the operating system, I perform the installation (which is successful because the disk format of the system is Ext4) and I put it back on the USB drive, I get an error about "symbolic characters", but if I run the server it starts without errors and works correctly.

In any case, I send you some videos to better understand the problem.

Video.del.2024-07-10.11-53-29.mp4

[krzysdz]

The error occurs when npm tries to create a symlink for the executable from mime package.

Since Express does not require executables to be installed, you can install with --no-bin-links or set bin-links to false in config to workaround this problems on filesystems, which do not support links, such as exFAT.