It works with normal folder. But I couldn't test with /. When I posted this question, I had trouble with / in read-only mode. I was forced to restart and went through a lot of troubles to repair the damages. I dont have nerves to try something like that again. Anyway, thanks for you help. It may help me in future. Peter. On 5/13/05, Saurabh Bathe <sbathe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Brown wrote: > > >I use debugfs to search for deleted files in my box. After exiting > >from debugfs, the filesystem is still in read-only mode. I suspect the > >program didn't stop properly. How can I change filesystem back to > >read-write mode? > > > > > > > Does "mount -o remount,rw" help? > > -Saurabh >