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Praveen
Asked: 2019-03-26 22:03:13 +0800 CST

Can't create file: Read-only file system

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I was trying to recover files from android phone using adb shell and test disk. But I am getting a read only filesystem error, even though the permissions to write is granted to the user.

adb devices

list the device attached. After I ran the following commands

adb shell

Inside the shell I did the following

user:/ $ su
user:/ # adb shell "stty raw; cat </dev/block/mmcblk0p56" > data.img
sh: can't create data.img: Read-only file system

How to solve this?

Update

Trying the proposed solutions:

 $ sudo adb shell "stty raw; cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p56" > /home/user/android-backup/data.img
stty: tcgetattr standard input: Not a typewriter
cat: /dev/block/mmcblk0p56: Permission denied

Mounting code:

$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p56 /tmp
mount: /tmp: mount point not mounted or bad option.
command-line permissions read-only adb

2 Answers

  1. You can try to remount the file system with read and write permissions (source):

    sudo mount -o remount,rw /partition/identifier /mount/point

    Or in your case you just can tray to redirect the output to a file located in a directory where you must be able to write:

    adb shell "stty raw; cat </dev/block/mmcblk0p56" > /tmp/data.img
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  2. Are you trying to copy the block device to an image file on your local computer? If so, try:

    adb shell su -c '"stty raw; cat < /dev/block/mmcblk0p56"' > data.img
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