[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Warren <tomewarren+grlug at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> :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.

When you mount something, the mount permissions override that of the
mount point.  Try setting the user and permissions for the mount as
part your parameters to the mount command.


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