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Think about your question here... When you mount a device you are presenting a new mount point with its own options to the linux kernel. So you can very easily do the mount command with the -o rw option.
but in order to mount i would need to have a mount point right? and that would require creating a directory under /media which is ro. I can create something while my filesystem is rw, but that doesn't seem like the correct solution
All you need is an existing mount point so if you create the directory /media/usb it will always be there you can then mount your USB drive as rw to that folder and it will be its own read/write filesystem in /media/usb
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