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I have a usb hdd that I am trying to mount with exec -- so I can run executable files from the disk.
In fstab I have:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk auto rw,exec,user 0 1
But when I mount, I get
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbdisk type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,data=ordered,user)
And I cannot run executable files from the disk.
Here's a tidbit from man mount:
user: Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem. [...] This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line user,exec,dev,suid).
In case that's not clear, later arguments take precedence and by putting user last you've implicitly overridden exec. Try it the other way around:
rw,user,exec
