Tim wrote:
Sam Tregar:
Hello all. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and I'm trying to solve a problem with USB drive auto-mounting. When I plug in my USB drive it gets mounted with noexec turned on. This is a problem for me because I use
Matthew Miller
That's not a problem, that's a solution. :)
;-) I had the opposite problem on FC4/FC5 (haven't tested it on FC6, yet), that a flash drive would get mounted with the X bit set on all files, so double-clicking various files would ask me about running instead of reading them. I keep meaning to look into mount options for setting X on directories unsetting it on files...
I get the x bit set on all wiles when ever I mount a FAT file system. It is still set when using the noexec option, but the system no longer tries to run them. It has something to do with the mapping of permissions between Windows and Linux.
Mikkel