executable on a thumb drive

[Steven Vollom]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Willy Hamra wrote:
>
>   
>> 2008/11/18 Constantinos Maltezos <pandarsson at yahoo.com>:
>>     
>>> I recently tried to install a Linux program (Writer's Cafe) onto one
>>> of my
>>> thumb drives.  The thumb drive is, of course, formatted to vfat,
>>> which makes every file executable.  
>>>       
>
> Not really.
>
>   
>> i'm not sure about this, or what exactly is the option needed, but
>> could it be an executable mount option? give mount an option to allow
>> executables on this device? maybe put this option in fstab?
>>     
>
> Indeed.  Removable media are generally _not_ executable (I've never quit 
> figured out why):
>
> $ mount | grep scd0
> /dev/scd0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 
> (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=derek)
>   
You guys are really over my head, but does the preceding code 
automatically make things you save on CD'c, DVD's, Thumb Drives, 
executable?  Do you have to re-enter the code each time or is it 
permanently established?  This is probably a stupid question, but there 
are times I have copied something that I would prefer it to open 
automatically rather than having the Click Step.  Thanks.  Hope it not 
changing the subject.
> Mount with the "exec" option (I'm _sure_ you can do that on a per-device 
> basis, but I can't remember how, short of editing the hal .fdi files).
>