[wplug] KNOPPIX writing

[Eric Peterson]

The type of filesystem is important.  If it's a Microsoft NTFS partition,
then you'll have limited write support ...
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.0

-eric

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
James O'Kane
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 11:52 AM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: Re: [wplug] KNOPPIX writing


On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Weber, Larry A wrote:

> I am running KNOPPIX 3.3 from a CD drive.  How do I un-write protect 
> my hda1 so I can store created new files and dirs?

This is a guess because I don't know what KNOPPIX is doing specifically to 
protect hda1, but I suspect they just have it mounted read-only.

mount -oremount,rw /dev/hda1 

should change it from read-only to read-write.

-james