On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:48 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so perhaps i came in late, but is there any reason the standard > mount options wouldn't be appropriate? Just read the earlier mails in the thread: the reiserfs partition was getting mounted as 'noexec' (why that is beyond my knowledge) and this led to a meaningless mess that was disallowing even the root to run an executable binary (just get the fun of it!). I learned a lot in the last two hours. Thanks to the list. -- das