Hi Peter,

> > /dev/sdb1 /media/CAW1 ext4
> >     rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
>
> For those of us not so hot on this stuff, is it related to 
> "nosuid,nodev" and then what do we do?

It's not, no.  :-)  mount(8) explains that nosuid means setuid, set user
ID, and setgid, group, permission bits should be ignored and nodev stops
inodes that are character or block devices from being treated as such.

IOW, don't trust the contents of the filesystem too much.

Cheers, Ralph.

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