[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Tom Warren]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Warren <tomewarren+grlug at gmail.com<tomewarren%2Bgrlug at gmail.com>
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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.)
>>>
>>> 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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>> What is the output of ls -ld /drive2 ? This could very well be a
>> permissions issue.
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>> Tom
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> 755  root root
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> I changed the owner to myself, and
> nothing changes.
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> But then, I can look at any other directory
> in root with similar permissions.  Just not the
> external drive.
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>    -- Bob
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As the user (non-root) can you list the contents of the Filesystem? Are we
maybe dealing with an ACL?  Run "getfacl /disk2" before and after you mount
the drive and post the output.

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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