vitamin wrote: > > What filesystem is that /mnt/hda1? How is it mounted? With what options? Just post output of: > > Code: > mount | grep hda1 > > Vitamin - you do have a knack for insight. Code: island@islandinthesun:~$ mount | grep hda3 /dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda3 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) island@islandinthesun:~$ Presumably, noexec, nosuid, and nodev more or less means: No executing, not even as root, and don't even think about trying to develop anything here. Learnt something else now. It's a good day, so far. I'll dig into fstab, man, and mount and see what I should set those to. I want to use hda3 as my working environment, because the main partition with Debian and my 'home' on is a bit tight. regards, Island
