how to mount my allready mounted hda1 and hda5 to rw permis.

Please help me i cant' do nothing i allready read all simulatenous topics ih this forum but i didn't find anything...
I am from Bulgaria I am a novice in LINUX so can you explain me like an how to for dummy step by step...

I try to edit fstab this is the only way i know by red hat but the file wont save so tell me another way...

mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1

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Hi all,

Thanks stonet & Capoeira.
I have been putting up with the same problem.
I usualy work for CD and do not use the hard dirve
but when I do it is not rw.

Keep two things in mind. First the script must run
as root so I add sudo to the front of the line.
If the device in not mounted, asking to remount
will not work. So the following lines in a startup
script will do the job:

Code:

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sudo mount -o  wr /dev/hda1
sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1

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If you have a lot of partitions and hard drives
then you could update the file /etc/fstab

You could also use the sed command to look
at each line in /etc/fstab that has hd in it.
Then use s/exec 0/exec,rw 0/ to substitute the
second expression in place of the first.

Code:

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sudo sed '/hd/s/noauto,users,exec 0/auto,users,exec,rw 0/' /etc/fstab >/home/knoppix/fstab
sudo mv -f /home/knoppix/fstab /etc/fstab
sudo umount -a
sudo mount -a
mkdesktophdicons

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Best Wishes
paradocs

warning: hope I typed it correctly. Line one of the code is long
and must be kept as one line. The code is 5 lines long.
I am a beginner -- only I have been at it longer.
The stars -- I stole from the German forum. ;-)

Also, the desktop has hd icons of all hard drives and right clicking them pops up a menu where you can choose something like "change r/w permissions".

No need to be root, no shell magic, just simple click and run..