[solved]Mounting an internal drive

jagan605 · 2012-01-14 09:48:08

I am trying to mount an internal drive located at /dev/sda6. I want it to be read-write but it mounts as read-only.

mount -rw /dev/sda6 /mnt

I get an warning saying

mount: warning: /mnt seems to be mounted read-only.

Please suggest any ideas.

Last edited by jagan605 (2012-01-14 10:21:49)

karol · 2012-01-14 10:02:04

Have you tried mounting it on e.g. /mnt/foo or some other subdirectory?
What filesystem is it - NTFS?

One user seemed to need ntfs-3g to mount an ext4-formatted pendrive rw https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1002641

Last edited by karol (2012-01-14 10:06:35)

jagan605 · 2012-01-14 10:07:24

It is an ntfs partition. I tried mounting by creating a folder E in /mnt, but i get the same error.

mount: warning: /mnt/E seems to be mounted read-only.

karol · 2012-01-14 10:08:11

jagan605 · 2012-01-14 10:13:52

thanks a lot, worked like a charm.

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