[Wolves] Running linux apps off a USB HDD

[Paul Harrison]

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Peter Oliver wrote:
| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Paul Harrison wrote:
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| How does this filesystem get mounted?  Automatically?  It could well be
| that the hotplug stuff is explicitly setting noexec.

It look suspiciously like it.

I confess that I admitted defeat: I set up an ext2 partition & put
Thunderbird on that, with a suitable line in /etc/fstab specifying
exec.  TB works fine now from there.

For future reference, how does one persuade hotplug/automount to set
"exec" automatically?

Paul



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