Wondering how to remount a filesystem as Read-Write? We can help you.

As part of our Server Management Services, we assist our customers with similar queries.

Today, let us see how our Support techs perform this.

How to remount a filesystem as Read-Write?

Basically, you may need to simply remount your filesystem or you found that it is in a different state such as “Read Only”.

In such cases, the operating system may set your filesystems to Read-only when an error is detect with the filesystem or the disk.

When a filesystem is set to Read-Only, no data can write and this can prevent services and other tasks from completing properly leading to a non-functioning server.

Please note figuring out the reason for the error is up to the System Administrator.

Or the server owner as this is something that will not be related to the cPanel software.

With that said, if no critical errors were found with your filesystem, you may attempt to remount it as Read-Write.

Today, let us see simple step followed by our Support Techs to remount it.

You can remount your filesystem using the following command.

mount -o remount,rw /

In this case “/” represents the filesystem you wish to remount.

Note that managing filesystems are not tasks that cPanel support staff can perform for you as such, you or the administrator will need to perform this task.