Re: how to copy files from knoppix /mnt/hda# to /mnt/sda1 ?

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: joe, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: how to copy files from knoppix /mnt/hda# to /mnt/sda1 ?
> I have my system booted with Knoppix 3.6 and I'm trying to
> copy some files from /mnt/hda6 to /mnt/sda1 (a flash stick)
> but when I do: cp -p /mnt/hda6/etc/fstab to /mnt/sda1/fstab.cp
> the response is: /mnt/sda1 is a Read-only file system.
> But the default permissions are -rwxrwxrwx knoppix knoppix.


Use "mount" to see if it is rw or ro (read-write or read-only).

> So, what else needs to be done in order to copy files
> to this flash stick.


Maybe remount it as read-write. Maybe: "mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sda1".
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