<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Warren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomewarren%2Bgrlug@gmail.com">tomewarren+grlug@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div>> As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail,<br>
> it's an ext3 file system, and I mount it<br>
> manually, using "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb7 /disk2".<br>
> I only use it when I'm backing up, so I have no<br>
> reason to get in to fstab. The drive is only used<br>
> when I do a backup.<br>
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</div>I must have missed that one. A couple things to try...First, add the<br>
exec option to your mount parameters. It's plausible that Firefox is<br>
checking for exec privileges before it tries browsing the directory<br>
(to avoid getting Permission Denied errors, I would guess), but<br>
mounting external drives defaults to enabling the noexec option. Or,<br>
at least, it used to; I discovered that when I couldn't run scripts<br>
from my ~/bin directory when my /home was on an external USB disk.<br>
Come to think of it, I couldn't browse /home with Firefox then,<br>
either. (I didn't make that particular connection until just now.)<br>
<br>
Disabling noexec mount ability fixed the ~/bin execute issue, but I<br>
don't remember if the Firefox browsing issue was fixed at the same<br>
time. It wouldn't surprise me at all, though.<br>
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--<br>
:wq<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div></div>What is the output of ls -ld /drive2 ? This could very well be a permissions issue.<br><br>Tom<br><font color="#888888"> </font></blockquote><div>755 root root<br><br>I changed the owner to myself, and<br>
nothing changes.<br><br>But then, I can look at any other directory<br>in root with similar permissions. Just not the<br>external drive.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br> <br></div></div><br>