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recovery mode mount Macintosh HD as read/write

blueeye

blueeye

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Oct 27, 2007
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My little cousin has managed to fill up his MBA's HD so much it won't start. I've been sitting in the recovery mode terminal trying to delete files from the caches among other things, so at least it can start up and then he can move stuff onto a separate HD, but "Macintosh HD" (/dev/disk0s2) is always mounted read-only. If I try and unmount and remount it, I get "mount_hfs: Invalid argument" from trying either:

Code: 
mount -uw /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

or

Code: 
umount /dev/disk0s2
mkdir -p /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
mount -w /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

Any ideas?
 
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