Mounting Hard drive partition as writable with -rw swich using mount command

fultron · 02-13-2007, 12:03 PM

I've been having problesm mounting /dev/hda2 as a read/write filesystem. I am pretty sure i am doing this right, and I have read the man file and googled for more information. Here is what i tried:

sudo mkdir /mnt/hda2
sudo mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 -rw
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/hda2

When I run the third command, I am told that the filesystem is mounted read only. Didn't the -rw switch mount it as read/write? What am I doing wrong?

nirmaltom · 02-13-2007, 12:22 PM

hi,
-r switch for read only
-w switch for read/write

dont give both
so either give -w or -o rw

regards,
Tom.

fultron · 02-13-2007, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nirmaltom

hi,
-r switch for read only
-w switch for read/write

dont give both
so either give -w or -o rw

regards,
Tom.

Thanks for the response tom.

However, mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 -w still only mounts the partition read only. same with -o rw

Is there any UI in UBUNTU to do this?

nirmaltom · 02-13-2007, 12:47 PM

hi,
is the filesystem ntfs?
if not,give the mount command as

mount -t <fstype> -o rw <devicename> <mountpoint>

if ntfs,u have to download ntfs-3g driver.
regards,
Tom.

oskar · 02-13-2007, 12:47 PM

system - administration - disks.

Most of the time the auto detection feature works, but when in doubt specify the filesystem, like:
mount -t vfat ...
for example