(fedora) Re: running shell scripts from external USB disk

[Jacob =Jouk Jansen]

Karsten wrote on 19-MAY-2006 16:20:35.24
>On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:00:07PM +0200, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a FC5 system with an internal disk and a external USB disk withanext3 partition on it. If a shell script (bash,csh etc..) is located on the
> internal drive it works fine. If I copy it to the USB disk I get problems:
> (why????)
[snip]
>
>Check the output of 'mount' for that device. I'm pretty sure that it has
>been mounted with the 'noexec' flag.
 You are right.
 How to change this? This USB disk is mounted automatically when pluged in.
I cannot edit fstab since than the machine fails to boot when the disk is
not present.

                        Jouk


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