i just installed kali linux today and facing a hell lot of issue and the worst one is that i am not able to copy any file to my /dev/sda2
i searched this on google and found that my disk must be on read only mode but then i used

after this code i am able to get the cut option on right click but still not able to paste or move anything to and in /dev/sda2
i am on 2018.2 and running a single OS

i am just trying to copy a file name wget-log from root to /mnt/7C7493BF74937B1A/Movies and getting this error

i need help asap

Why do you use Kali?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ad-4175614092/

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i know this is silly but i want to learn kali its not the first time i am using kali. It's the first time i am facing this read only issue. please help me out and if you think this is a waste question just delete my thread

you need to give much more information. The minimum would be to post exactly what did you try and what's happened (and what did you want to achieve).http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#beprecise
Whithout that hard to say anything. Probably the directory you want to use was not yet created.
From the other hand you need to learn the basics first, without that you won't be able to use kali at all. It is something like reading arabic without learning the letters.

You seem to be trying to copy to a windows filesystem. Do you have a windows install on that computer? If so, which one? If it is 8 or 10 it is almost certainly hibernated and won't be mounted from Linux. Do you have ntfs-3g installed. Not sure why you would be copying a log file to aa windows directory Movies? The link below discusses doing this on Kali. If you have a windows install and want to use Kali to learn computer forensics, it would be a lot simpler to put Kali on a bootable usb per the detailed instructions on their site.

https://forum.techsanjal.com/2636/ma...inux-dual-boot

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i got 2 main partition 1st is sda5 (the root one) and then the sda2 (the partition containing files). After successful installation i mounted the sda2 partition and then tried moving my file from one folder to another in the same sda2 but i failed as then cut or move to option was not enable then i tried moving some files from sda5 to sda2 and again i failed as paste option was not there then i remounted the sda2 in RW mode and ow there is a option for cut, paste and move to yet i am not able to move file in same partition moreover i am not even getting any error. when i try moving file from sda5 to sda2 i get error.
this error shows that there is o such directory whereas "wget-log" is the file i am copying from sda5 to sda2 and Movies the the folder and both the thing do exist

i am using a single OS for now and previously i was using windows 10. i am copying the log file just to test if i am able to copy or not

that can be even a corrupted filesystem. Would be nice to check logs in /var/log and also try to use command line tools (to move/copy/create files) and check their responses.

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Thank you everyone for the help. The issue was that there was still some metadata kept in Windows cache, that's why it refused to mount. the solution to it would be just run
ntfsfix on your partition and then try to mount in RW mode

Serious you need to be in read only mode, READ ONLY, to copy files?

than you write

remount rw (read write)

are you serious?

using kali. unable to understand read only. unable to lookup the manpage what the parameter does? and mount is not that hard to read. it is very well explained in several topics.


you are definitely not a linux user.

i suggest you invest a few days and read a linux book about basics, or use the gentoo handbook and install gentoo and use it for at least 3 months with updates and daily procedures.

you lack shell, you lack manpages, you lack basic knowledge about users, file permissions, user permissions, mounting.

of course this knowledge is the same since windows 2000?, suse 6.2, slackware 96 to only name a few antique operating systems.

mounting is the same also

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also i do not get the fuss with kali.
you can use anyhting when you know how to use the tools.
or is it to brag, because some stupid tv show, advertises now kali?

I think that was mounted readonly because of some problem. And in post #9 it was explained, ntfsfix solved this issue.

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