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Gabriel
Asked: 2013-07-05 11:46:18 +0800 CST

(Steam) Mount ext4 partition with exec permissions

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I have most of my disk space in an ext4 partition which I automountt on startup through fstab. The corresponding line in fstabis this one:

/dev/sda9 /media/rest    ext4  users,user    0  0

Now I'm trying to install a game through Steam and I want the data folder to be stored in said partition, but when I try to select a folder in it I get the error:

New Steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

So I need that partition to have execute permissions. I'm guessing modifying the line in fstab to this might do the trick:

/dev/sda9 /media/rest    ext4  users,user,exec    0  0

but I'm not really sure and I don't want to mess up my system. Is this the correct solution for the mentioned issue?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The defaults option in fstab will give you what you want. As per mount ,

    man mount 

    defaults
          Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.

    So a line like 

    /dev/sda9 /media/rest    ext4  defaults    0  0

    should be OK.

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  2. If you use defaults but later you use users, it comes with its own set of options.

    From man mount:

    users
  Allow any user to mount and to unmount the filesystem, even when some other ordinary user mounted it. This  option  implies  the  options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).

    So a proper line to have exec permissions and allow users to mount/umount would be:

    /dev/sda9 /media/rest    ext4  defaults,users,exec    0  0

    There's no need to use users and user, the first one covers the second.

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