Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:44 +0100, Andy Green wrote: >> You can do this: >> >> mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/arkive -treiserfs >> -oremount,rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dd >> >> to effectively remount taking out the "noexec" part. > > And still, after this remount command, mount is showing: > > /dev/sda7 on /mnt/arkive type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=dd) Yeah the remount errored out before doing anything as you showed in your other mail ''[root@mamdo dd]# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/arkive -t reiserfs -o remount,rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dd mount: /mnt/arkive not mounted already, or bad option'' I guess the problem is on the "bad option" side of things. Try just mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/arkive -t reiserfs -oremount,rw assuming that it's not a shared box and the other options are not critical for security. -Andy