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Rusty_Gunn
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Default [a510] /system as rw

i am trying to mount /system as rw, but keep running into errors. my tab is rooted and i have superuser elite installed. i have tried from a terminal app from the su prompt (#mount -o remount,rw /system and variations of), from adb shell, and using adb remount, but always get an error. (permission denied, are you root?)

any suggestions?

secondly, i messed up my permissions on both /system and /etc, as i had a similar issue with permissions when i was trying to get root, but forgot to note what they were previous so that i could set them back. i set them both to 755 for now, but if someone could tell me what they are suppose to be that would be appreciated.
 
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Originally Posted by Rusty_Gunn View Post
i am trying to mount /system as rw, but keep running into errors. my tab is rooted and i have superuser elite installed. i have tried from a terminal app from the su prompt (#mount -o remount,rw /system and variations of), from adb shell, and using adb remount, but always get an error. (permission denied, are you root?)

any suggestions?

secondly, i messed up my permissions on both /system and /etc, as i had a similar issue with permissions when i was trying to get root, but forgot to note what they were previous so that i could set them back. i set them both to 755 for now, but if someone could tell me what they are suppose to be that would be appreciated.
Hi,

Try :

adb shell
su
mount -o rw, remount /system

It work fine for me on adb shell and terminal emulator

The command adb shell remount doesn't mount /system as rw
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thanks, that put me on the write track. turns out i was getting rw the whole time, but i didnt have write permissions. did chmod 777 /system and it worked, and when i was done i put it back to chmod 755 /system

if anyone has a similar problem, the command 'mount | grep /system' is a great way to check to see if you actually have it mount as rw or not.

before this i tried a couple of the remount apps, as well as the mount as 'rw' option in es file explorer and they always fail to mount, presumably they aren't failing to mount but are running into the same permission issue and can't write
 
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