David Frascone writes: > /home/chaos/.encrypted_work.dsk /home/chaos/work ext2 user,loop,noauto,encryption=blowfish,keybits=256 0 0 Add "exec" to the list of mount options. Or add "defaults", which is synonymous to "rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async". You can still overwrite any of those options in the remaining option string. Refer to the man page of mount(8) for further detail. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/