[vox-tech] FSTAB Questions

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:56:35 -0800


On Tue 17 Feb 04, 11:52 AM, David Hummel <ddhummel@pacbell.net> said:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:40:19AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > In addition to everyone else's wonderful suggestions, I also always
> > mount vfat drives with the showexec option, which turns off the exec
> > bit for files that aren't .exe files, but leaves it on for
> > directories. You can't do that with umask.
> 
> Good option.  "user" and "users" implies "noexec" though.
> 
> -David

so you can use the exec option.   :-)

pete

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