Can't add the exec option to my data partition in Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm using an HDD as a external drive, it has 3 partitions and one of them is for my Ubuntu Documents. I'm trying to compile my programs and it gives me the msg:

bash: ./qt-opencv-multithreaded: Permission denied

I read that this issue can be fixed by changing the exec option, this is how my partition looks like right now:

/dev/sda3 on /media/storage type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

I tried to run this command:

$ sudo mount -o remount,exec /media/storage/

But it gives me this error:

Remounting is not supported at present. You have to umount volume and then mount it once again.

I'm kinda new to Ubuntu, and I am not really sure how to do umount and mount thing, can you help me please?

Answer 1

umount-ing is as simple as:

umount /media/storage

(If that doesn't work, then run the same thing with sudo: sudo umount /media/storage)

Following the instructions, after the umount you could try to mount again:

sudo mount -o rw,exec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 /dev/sda3 /media/storage

But... I think your life will be easier to copy the files you want to compile to a local disk and compile and run there.

Answer 2

If you are using a external Disk .. you may not execute in that..

better copy program in your virtual memory i mean your root system.. Then it will work.

and for mounting..

try to do:

umount /dev/sda3

then mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

• intead of mnt you can use any other location you want.