[Wolves] Running linux apps off a USB HDD

[James Turner]

On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 21:46, Paul Harrison wrote:
> Peter Oliver wrote:
> | Type "mount".  This will tell you what options were used when the
> | filesystem was mounted.  If "noexec" is mentioned it means that
> | executing files on this filesystem is forbidden.
>
> It was & is "noexec", I'm afraid.
>
> I've tried putting the following into /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0
>
> but still mount says
> /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,uid=1000,gid=1000)
>
> after a reboot.
>
> So I'm still doing something wrong...Googling has got me nowhere.

Try (as root):

mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -t vfat -o umask=000,exec,remount

I don't mess about with mount that often, so I hope I've got the syntax right! 
Based on what happens with the above you could try specifying "exec" as an 
explicit option in /etc/fstab... or asking Ron. :)

James