A terminal command for a rooted Android to remount /System as read/write

Question

I\'m writing an android app that needs to copy a file to the \"/system\" partition at runtime. I\'ve got the commands to run \"su\" and can successfully request SuperUser pe

Answer 1

You don't need to pass both arguments when performing a remount. You can simply pass the mount point (here /system). And /system is universal amongst Android devices.

Answer 2

You can run the mount command without parameter in order to get partition information before constructing your mount command. Here is an example of the mount command without parameter outputed from my HTC Hero.

$ mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock3 /system yaffs2 rw 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock5 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock4 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=
1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,s
hortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Answer 3

I had the same problem. So here is the real answer: Mount the system under /proc. Here is my command:

mount -o rw,remount /proc /system

It works, and in fact is the only way I can overcome the Read-only System problem.