[WLUG] running programs and scripts from my flash drive

[Jon DeVree]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 20:50:20 -0400, Jack Smith wrote:
> I'm sure this is something stupid I'm doing, but I can't make programs or
> scripts executable on my flash drive.  I'm running Mint 16 Petra and the
> drive is msdos.
> 

The drive is probably mounted noexec, thats a pretty popular default.


Someone who uses mint probably knows the right way to change that. I
know the low level solution, but thats inevitably the hard way to do it
on any desktop oriented distro. (Edit /etc/fstab)

-- 
Jon
Kernel Archaeologist
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