Problem mounting a drive via mount point under home
 

I have a secondary hard disk, /dev/sdb1, which I want to mount using a mount point which is a directory under my user home. In my fstab I have the following entry:

/dev/sdb1 /home/myhome/secondarydisk ext2 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,sync 0 0

I can read/write to the drive, but when I build an app on this drive I can't execute it. The app has the following permissions:

-rwxr-xr-x

Which I thought gave me permissions to execute the app. What have I done wrong?

Thanks,

CB

Check the permissions for the /home/myhome/secondarydisk directory. Make sure that it allows program execution.

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Steve Stites

It does...
CB

What happens when you try to run the application? eg error messages.

I get this:

bash: /home/myhome/secondarydisk/myapp: Permission denied

The permissions of /home/myhome/secondarydisk is: drwxrwxr-x

It seems that the owner of the /home/myhome/secondarydisk directory is user 505, which is not listed in the table of users or groups.

CB

Take a look at the mount man pages. The user option implies noexec, nosuid, and nodev which will override anything prior. The mount command without options will show how each filesystem is mounted.

A mount point cannot also be used as a regular directory. Try creating a directory under /home/myhome/secondarydisk and put your programs there. In other words create something like:

/home/myhome/secondarydisk/bin/myapp

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Steve Stites

Actually the app is not in the root directory...it is several down

something like...

/home/myhome/secondarydisk/development/projects/newproj/thisone/trunk/bin


CB

Ding Ding Ding.... We have a winner.... the user option was over riding the previous options... I removed 'user' and now it is all working like I thought it should....Thanks,

CB