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copy hosts file to etc?

pickarooney · 2017-07-09 21:08:02

Simple question but it's driving me daddy and Google is not helping... I have a hosts file which I've want to replace my current one with but despite being root and renaming the original file I can't copy the other one over (erofs read only file system). What can I use to change the permission or copy the file over without…

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Simple question but it's driving me daddy and Google is not helping... I have a hosts file which I've want to replace my current one with but despite being root and renaming the original file I can't copy the other one over (erofs read only file system).

What can I use to change the permission or copy the file over without messing up anything?

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The partition is mounted as read-only, you need to mount it read-write. Root Explorer can do this, or if you have TWRP as your recovery you can do it from within there, it's got a basic file manager

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