Having problems using the mount command

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> on Sun, 23 Aug 2020
11:14:08 +0100

> 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, ...)

It is a partition on the hard drive.


> Does it have a write-protect tab or button?
> 
> How was the partition created?

It was created many years ago, do not remember what OS was used to create it. 
It has been copied from disk to disk over the years whenever I got a new
computer.


> 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

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