Command to mount read/write?

[edwina]

Hello. Quick, easy question, but it's driving me a bit barmy.

My Kubuntu won't get past the login screen. There are various solutions, but I'm going to try a fresh install and start again. I just need to rescue some files first.

If I use the latest Kubuntu CD, none of my drives are mounted and the fstab is pretty much empty. If I use Knoppix all of the drives are mounted but they are still read only, and I want to dive in and delete/copy/move a few between partitions.

I think I can mount the drives read/write with something like

sudo mount /dev/hda6 /media/drivename ext3 -rw

but I seem to be getting something wrong in there because the manual help file keeps coming up. Can anyone sort me out?

Thanks in advance.

[Rog131]

Re: Command to mount read/write?

Hmm - if you are using kubuntu from CD (Start Kubuntu in safe graphic mode)

You want mount just hda6:

sudo mount /dev/hda6 /media/

If you want mount to media/drivename

make dir:

sudo mkdir /media/drivename

mount:

sudo mount dev/hda6 /media/drivename

[aysiu]

Re: Command to mount read/write?

Knoppix has a Konqueror Super User Mode launcher in the KMenu somewhere.

If you can't find that, just do this:

su
konqueror

[edwina]

Re: Command to mount read/write?

Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated.

I still need to sort out the read/write part though. Any ideas? I'm sure it's very easy ;-)

[kubicle]

Re: Command to mount read/write?

I still need to sort out the read/write part though. Any ideas? I'm sure it's very easy ;-)

The correct format for specifying filesystem and mount options is:

sudo mount -t <fstype> -o <mountoptions> /dev/hda6 /media/drivename

(Of course if you have an fstab line you don't need to define them, just sudo mount /dev/hda6 is enough)

Read-write 'rw' is the default, though, so you should be able to write to it with sudo