On Nov 20, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Brian Durant wrote: > Why is /mnt/osx2 "read-only? I ran 'sudo mount /dev/sdc12 /mnt/osx2 > -o umask=000 -t hfsplus If you have the volume listed in /etc/fstab like: /dev/sdb3 /mnt/osx hfsplus,noauto,user,rw 0 0 it should mount read/write (that's what the rw does) with: sudo mount -a Try unmounting it, then just do "sudo mount -a" There may be something wrong with the explicit manual mount command - seems like it should work for read/write access, but I don't know ubuntu that well. When you give an explicit manual mount command, it doesn't matter what's in fstab, so it's either one or the other: sudo mount / mnt/blah blah -t blah - o blah *OR* add it to fstab and do "sudo mount -a". SR