Problems mounting ext2 r/w

[jamesraykenney]

All I do for ext2,3 and riserfs is to get root and say mount /dev/hdax

I know its already mounted read only but I dont remount or anything and that works fine for me.

I did a mount /dev/hda1 and it said that is was already mounted.
So I did a umount /dev/hda1 and then a mount /dev/hda1
tried to create a file in /etc and was told that access was denied.