How do I remount a filesystem as read/write?
The correct syntax is:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /partition/identifier /mount/point
Where mount/point
is /partition/identifier
's corresponding mountpoint, as listed by the following command:
mount -v | grep "^/" | awk '{print "\nPartition identifier: " $1 "\n Mountpoint: " $3}'
For example, say that the above command gives this:
Partition identifier: /dev/sda1
Mountpoint: /
Partition identifier: /dev/sda2
Mountpoint: /boot
Partition identifier: /dev/sda3
Mountpoint: /test
The following would be the correct syntax. (We start by unmounting it, if it's already mounted.)
sudo umount /test
sudo umount /dev/sdb3
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,remount -force /dev/sdb3 /media/untitled
for busybox/android users:
Oddly, I needed to add a space (in contrast to normal usage) between 'remount' and 'rw':
mount -o remount, rw /
otherwise it wouldn't work.
UPDATE: it seems that this is almost never the case (see comments). Not sure which busybox-version + android-version I was running. I'll just leave this here in case anyone still runs into it.
Running dmesg | grep hfs
showed that the filesystem was unmounted incorrectly, which I was able to repair using
fsck.hfsplus /dev/sdb3/