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I'm trying to download some files from my remote host using scp and proxyjump, however, I keep getting the dread read-only file system anywhere I try to download my file to... initially I couldn't even touch any files to my directory however I managed to run killall Finder and that fixed the latter, however, I still cannot download the necessary files to my directory of choice... does anyone know how to fix this?

scp -r -oProxyJump=I R:remote_file localfile

The above is what I'm using for downloading a file. Where I is an intermediate host, R is the remote host and remote_file is the directory and localfile is my directory, all I get is:

localfile: Read-only file system

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • When you say "download to the directory of my choice" where exactly is that? Can you download to the default Downloads directory (/Users/skidjoe/Downloads, for example)
    – Allan
    Commented Nov 20, 2019 at 0:33
  • I'm trying to download to /Users/skidjoe/someFile/ ; I've also tried downloading to /Users/skidjoe/Downloads and I get the same error...
    – skidjoe
    Commented Nov 20, 2019 at 1:04
  • See if this helps: support.apple.com/en-us/HT210650
    – Allan
    Commented Nov 20, 2019 at 1:13
  • I see, I have read this post before, but I can't seem to figure out what may be the solution (if any exist?). So I can't write to the newly created hard-disk, is there any way to access/write to the other one (which is not read-only)?
    – skidjoe
    Commented Nov 20, 2019 at 1:17
  • Got to work! Thanks for the help! Had to go out of my root directory and write to Applications folder!
    – skidjoe
    Commented Nov 20, 2019 at 1:26

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I had to move out of my root directory and scp somewhere else (Applications folder in my case).

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