How to write to a Mac OSX read-only filesystem?
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I have DMG I need to mount and write a file to. When I mount it, finder shows the root and all as read-only. Then I discovered 'mount -w'. But when I run that, I get 'mount: unknown special file or file system.' How can I mount this disk image as writable, or force a file into it?
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Almost all read-only DMGs are actually compressed ( -- see the man page), so their file format doesn't support simply "flipping a bit" to make them writable. You could use Disk Utility or ...to see what format your disk image is in. Then you could u…
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