How do I automount without the noexec option?

[mneisen]

Hello,

I have an external USB harddrive. When I plug it into my laptop, HAL (or whatever component is responsible) mounts ist on /media/sdc1. That's great!

What's not so great: The USB drive is mounted with the "noexec" mount option enabled which prevents me from running software of this drive.

Now, how can I change this behaviour? I do not want the noexec flag at all, so it's okay to disable it entirely, not just for this particular USB drive (I might get more ... :-D).

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards
Martin Eisenhardt

[askrieger]

Re How do I automount without the noexec option?

If it always shows up at /dev/sdc1, just enter it in your fstab with the exec option. If it sometimes appears as sd[abdefgh, etc], you'll need to use a "builtin persitent naming scheme". See this udev rules howto. It's a lot easier than it looks.

[aysiu]

Re How do I automount without the noexec option?

I've never had to deal with noexec--either putting it in or taking it out. But these two tutorials should solve your problem:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux.html