Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:48 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> but "exec" *is* the default mount option. > > But the "user" option sets noexec. > > user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The > name of the mounting user is written to mtab so that he > can unmount the file system again. This option implies > the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden > by subsequent options, as in the option line > user,exec,dev,suid). Well spotted -- I guess that is where the actual mount-reported noexec, nosuid and nodev options originally came from, they sprang from giving user in the /etc/fstab options. But I still didn't understand why the remount attempt that didn't include anything but -oremount,rw blew chunks. I guess it is a 'feature' of reiserfs or one of those options. Anyway if das removed the "user" part from /etc/fstab it should enable him to run things from that partition again. Or maybe he'll just build on one of his ext3 parts from now on ;-) -Andy
