If you click the icon representing that partition, the partition is automatically
mounted and a folder opens to the root of that directory.
The name of each partition (hda1, hda2, and so forth for IDE partitions; sda1, sda2, and so on for
SCSI disk partitions, including USB flash drives) is shown on the desktop icon representing each
partition. Hover the mouse pointer over the icon to see information about the partition??™s mount
point and device name. With that information, you can make any of those partitions writable by
following these steps:
1. Right-click the icon representing the hard disk partition you want to write to on the
KNOPPIX desktop. A menu opens, displaying functions available for that partition.
2. Choose the Change read/write mode option. You are asked if you really want that partition
to be writable. Select Yes.
At this point, you can open the folder to the partition (hda2 in our example) or open a shell and
write to that directory (/mnt/hda2 and any subdirectories). To make that change permanent (in
the KNOPPIX sense), you need to change /etc/fstab to add rw to the entry for the partition
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so it is mounted read/write by default. Again, with the example of /dev/hda2, an entry in
/etc/fstab to mount that partition read/write could look as follows:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0
With that change, simply typing sudo mount /dev/hda2 mounts the directory with read/write
permissions.
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