When running “make” on Mocha.js tests, on mounted drive, get Permission Denied error 127

Question

I have a node.js app located in an ntfs mounted drive in linux (Ubuntu). The makefile contents look like:

test:
    @./node_modules/.bin/mocha -u tdd

When running "make test" on this, I get the error:

make: execvp: ./node_modules/.bin/mocha: Permission denied
make: *** [test] Error 127

This even happens when running "sudo make test"

When listing the permissions of that directory, there is execute permissions on that file:

ls -l node_modules/.bin/
total 3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 208 2012-05-01 14:15 express
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 191 2012-05-01 14:15 express.cmd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 200 2012-05-01 14:15 mocha
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 202 2012-05-01 14:15 _mocha
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 185 2012-05-01 14:15 _mocha.cmd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 183 2012-05-01 14:15 mocha.cmd

Copying this directory to a location outside of the mounted drive, and running "sudo make test" there succeeds.

It is mounted via /etc/fstab as the line:

/dev/disk/by-label/Files    /media/d    ntfs-3g defaults,user,local=en_US.utf8 0 0

How can I get this to work within the ntfs mounted drive?

Answer 1

The volume is mounted noexec. Remount it exec instead.