Karsten wrote on 19-MAY-2006 16:20:35.24 >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:00:07PM +0200, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a FC5 system with an internal disk and a external USB disk withanext3 partition on it. If a shell script (bash,csh etc..) is located on the > internal drive it works fine. If I copy it to the USB disk I get problems: > (why????) [snip] > >Check the output of 'mount' for that device. I'm pretty sure that it has >been mounted with the 'noexec' flag. You are right. How to change this? This USB disk is mounted automatically when pluged in. I cannot edit fstab since than the machine fails to boot when the disk is not present. Jouk Bush : All votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------< Jouk Jansen joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Technische Universiteit Delft tttttttttt uu uu ddddddd Kavli Institute of Nanoscience tttttttttt uu uu dd dd Nationaal centrum voor HREM tt uu uu dd dd Lorentzweg 1 tt uu uu dd dd 2628 CJ Delft tt uu uu dd dd Nederland tt uu uu dd dd tel. 31-15-2782272 tt uuuuuuu ddddddd >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<