Mounting a filesystem as rw

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Hi,

I was doing some experimenting with LIVE cd of SLAX.  

My drives were mounted as read-only.

I un-mounted them and re-mounted as

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -o rw

It shows it is rw but in effect its still ro.  
How can i get around this?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Ensure that the drive in question is error free.  You may not succeed in mounting a drive read-only if it is corrupted in any way.  Set permissions as required (although if you're doing this all as root, you should be fine).

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Those drives are my windows drive.

I was booting with the CD of Linux. It doesn't needs to be installed.

So no question of being errored.  8-)

On doing anything, it says:

Read only filesystem.

[Rob Pomeroy]

1. You cannot mount the CD read/write (obviously).
2. If there are errors on your hard drive, you cannot mount that read/write either.

[vibhor_agarwalin]

There is some confusion:

I am running directly from the Linux CD.  8-)

No confusion of error on disk, as i regularly boot my system with Windows from the same disks.  

[Rob Pomeroy]

Have you run scandisk on your hard drives recently?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Yup,

A couple of days back.

[Rob Pomeroy]

What error message are you seeing exactly?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

The filesystem is mounted read-only.

Even though i remounted it as read-write, it still says read-only.
On typing mount, shows as rw but in effect is ro.

Is it possible to write on to a disc when you are running Linux directly from a CD?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Yes, it should be possible.  There might be something I'm missing here.  Have you tried asking your question over at the >Slax forum<?

Which folder exactly are you trying to write to?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Good idea  

I'll try right away.

I was simply trying to write anywhere. It included C: & D: which are the 2 partitions i have.

[Rob Pomeroy]

And what is the full path to those mounted partitions?  Could you post the output of

mount

and

cat /etc/fstab

?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Can't give the output as i don't have the CD right now.

It contained something like
/dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1 as ro ( mount ).

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Made a thread is Slax forum also.  

[Rob Pomeroy]

/dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1 as ro ( mount ).

Is that a typo?  If not, you'd need to edit /etc/fstab and change the ro to rw.