Re: Unable to execute from USB Drive (FC2)

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Am Fr, den 01.07.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 17:20:

> I'm having problems executing programs from a mounted USB drive.
> 
> I mount /dev/sda1 to /dev/usb and create some directories
> over there. All paths have execute access all the way down
> When I try to execute a program built on the USB drive, I get
> "bash: /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello: Permission denied".
> 
> Is this because it is a "removable medium"? I just checked, and
> I get the same error from a floppy.

This is very certainly because the filesystem on the USB drive is vfat
(fat32). You can't execute programs on/from such a filesystem. Use a
Linux filesystem like ext3.

> Mike

Alexander


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