Having problems using the mount command

[Peter Flynn]

On 22/08/2020 23:58, Bob wrote:
> I am definitely a novice at this.

No, you're fine. I've been using Unix for decades, and I still get this 
problem.

> I am trying to mount /dev/sda5 to a mount point in my home directory.  I can
> get it mounted but it is read-only.

What is the device? (USB stick, USB self-powered drive, USB 
mains-powered drive, magnetic disk, solid-state disk, SCSI drive, ...)

Does it have a write-protect tab or button?

How was the partition created?

Last time this happened to me, it was a USB stick partitioned and 
formatted on someone else's machine using software I'd never heard of, 
so I wiped it and recreated it with mintstick and it worked fine.

Peter