[maemo-developers] Chmod Issue on 810

[From: Dr. Nicholas Shaw]

I tried it after following Sarah's e-mail and it worked.  Sarah - thanks!
Jac - thanks as well for your suggestion!

Nick.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jac Kersing [mailto:j.kersing at the-box.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 16:29
To: Sarah Newman
Cc: Dr. Nicholas Shaw; 'maemo-dev List'
Subject: Re: Chmod Issue on 810

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Sarah Newman wrote:

> I have execute available on my vfat cards.
>
> from fstab:
> /dev/mmcblk0p1  /media/mmc2 vfat rw,noauto,nodev,nosuid,utf8,uid=29999 0 0
> /dev/mmcblk1p1  /media/mmc1 vfat rw,noauto,nodev,nosuid,utf8,uid=29999 0 0

Have you tried chmod +x on a file and looked at the results? Being able to 
mount it without noexec does not mean the file system is able to store the 
bits :-)

Best regards,

Jac

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