changing a read-only file to rw

[Phil Savoie]

On 07/06/2012 11:15 AM, Jim wrote:
> mount -o remount,rw /
>
> I trying to write on to /media/backup , but it is a read-only file sys,
> how do I change it to rw. the above command is not doing it.
Hi Jim,

You could try as the root user changing the permissions of /media/backup.

# chmod 777 /media/backup

and see if this works.

Phil
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