<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">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><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Warren <<a href="mailto:tomewarren%2Bgrlug@gmail.com">tomewarren+grlug@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> > 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>
>>> ><br>
>>><br>
>>> 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>
>>><br>
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>> What is the output of ls -ld /drive2 ? This could very well be a<br>
>> permissions issue.<br>
>><br>
>> Tom<br>
>><br>
><br>
> 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>
</div></div>When you mount something, the mount permissions override that of the<br>
mount point. Try setting the user and permissions for the mount as<br>
part your parameters to the mount command.<br>
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</font></blockquote><div>Would that be any different than just setting<br>them afterwards?<br><br>Anyway, I tried the mount as:<br><br>mount -t ext3 -o owner,group /dev/sdb7 /disk2<br><br>I see the same behavior as before: I can view<br>
items within /disk2, but not the contents of /disk2.<br><br>And of course the contents of any directory on <br>the primary drive.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><br> <br></div></div><br>