[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Warren
<tomewarren+grlug at gmail.com<tomewarren%2Bgrlug at gmail.com>
> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 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.
>> >
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>> 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.)
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>> 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
>

755  root root

I changed the owner to myself, and
nothing changes.

But then, I can look at any other directory
in root with similar permissions.  Just not the
external drive.

   -- Bob
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