Thank you dougie and jojopi. I have thrown in the towel, and moved my working directory to the sd card and everything is working fine. I will back up my source files to the thumb drive and then figure out the easiest way to get it over to my NAS. I very much appreciate your help and guidance. In spi...

Dougie, I am indeed running Raspbian. I read through the AutoFs link and, of course, felt like I'd gone down the rabbit hole following links to links as one does when working on these Linux problems. Ultimately udev has only two rules files, neither of which contain anything that I think would impac...

Thank you again Dougie. I had looked at /etc/fstab and that didn't seem to be what was mounting the volume, but I should have included a copy of it, so here it is. proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mmcblk0p5 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/mmcblk0p6 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 # a swapfile is not a swa...

Thank you, Dougie. The RPi is automatically mounting the USB stick boot-time. Rather than umount-ing and then mount-ing with the umask that I'm looking for and (heaven-willing) getting all the other parameters correct, do you know of a way for me to get the automated mount to include execute permiss...

I am working on a C++ project using Code::Blocks. If I create a "hello world" executable in the /home/pi/bin/Debug tree all is good. However, I want to create it on a USB thumb drive. The path is "/media/8879-6109/bin/Debug/". My executable "test2" is created with "-rwxr-xr-x" when I create it in my...