[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Tom Warren]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> > As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail,
> > it's an ext3 file system, and I mount it
> > manually, using "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb7 /disk2".
> > I only use it when I'm backing up, so I have no
> > reason to get in to fstab.  The drive is only used
> > when I do a backup.
> >
>
> I must have missed that one.  A couple things to try...First, add the
> exec option to your mount parameters.  It's plausible that Firefox is
> checking for exec privileges before it tries browsing the directory
> (to avoid getting Permission Denied errors, I would guess), but
> mounting external drives defaults to enabling the noexec option.  Or,
> at least, it used to; I discovered that when I couldn't run scripts
> from my ~/bin directory when my /home was on an external USB disk.
> Come to think of it, I couldn't browse /home with Firefox then,
> either. (I didn't make that particular connection until just now.)
>
> Disabling noexec mount ability fixed the ~/bin execute issue, but I
> don't remember if the Firefox browsing issue was fixed at the same
> time.  It wouldn't surprise me at all, though.
>
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> :wq
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What is the output of ls -ld /drive2 ? This could very well be a permissions
issue.

Tom

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Tom Warren                                           tomewarren at gmail.com
meijer ITS Technical Engineer - Storage   Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
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