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Read only file system on Android


I recently rooted my Droid X and everything seems to be working perfectly. I made some changes to build.prop and when I do adb push build.prop /system/ I get the following error: failed to copy 'c:\build.prop' to '/system//build.prop': Read-only file system.

How can I fix this?


Solution

  • Got this off an Android forum where I asked the same question. Hope this helps somebody else.

    On a terminal emulator on the phone:

    mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
    

    Then on the cmd prompt, do the adb push