# Uploading to EYESY Through SSH: Read-only?
**URL:** https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/uploading-to-eyesy-through-ssh-read-only/6712
**Category:** EYESY
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/uploading-to-eyesy-through-ssh-read-only/6712 "2020-12-20T01:43:13Z")
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### Author:  [@alexeismith](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/alexeismith)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/uploading-to-eyesy-through-ssh-read-only/6712/1 "2020-12-20T01:43:14Z")
Hi, I’m taking my first steps into modifying the EYESY system and need a little help please!
I’ve modified some files and would like to upload them to EYESY through ssh (on Mac Terminal), but the system is read-only - how do I get write access?
`scp eyesy.pd music@eyesy.local:EYESY_OS/pd/eyesy.pd`
`music@eyesy.local's password: music`
`scp: EYESY_OS/pd/eyesy.pd: Read-only file system`
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@oweno](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/oweno)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/uploading-to-eyesy-through-ssh-read-only/6712/2 "2020-12-21T18:42:57Z")
There are two disk partitions on the EYESY. The root file system is read only. The partition with the modes, images, and settings is mounted at /sdcard and is read write. For writing or editing modes you will be editing files in the /sdcard partition, so you don’t need to do anything. If you need to change lower level stuff on the root filesystem you can SSH in and do this to flip it to read/write mode:
```
sudo mount / -o remount,rw
```
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### Author:  [@alexeismith](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/alexeismith)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/uploading-to-eyesy-through-ssh-read-only/6712/3 "2020-12-22T00:02:07Z")
Thanks for the reply. That line did the trick!
To clarify, I’m adding a shift option to disable mode saving, so yes I’m changing the lower level stuff 🙂