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I am having issues with lirc and remote button press repeating. I tried everything and the last thing o try is add a parameter (--repeat-filter) to a 62_eventlircd file located in /etc/init.d
Problem is that this directory is in read_only file-system so I cant edit/delete it. chmod doesn't work either.
I attempted to remount it but I got an error: mount: can't find /etc in /proc/mounts
How can I edit this file? Or better still how can I override setting in this file from /storage directory?
I guess your image is OpenELEC as @Lawrence said that. OpenELEC uses squashfs compressed image filesystem so you can't edit without uncompressing.
To uncompress it, convert your sd-card content into image with dd command in another computer which runs linux.
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/tmp/openelec.img
Then install squashfs-tools to get compress/uncompress tools for squashfs.
apt-get install squashfs-tools
To uncompress and edit your file use unsquashfs
cd /tmp
unsquashfs openelec.img # it will create a folder named squashfs-root
nano /tmp/squashfs-root/etc/init.d/62_eventlircd
save your changes, then compress it to use again.
cd /tmp
mksquashfs squashfs-root openelec-modified.img
then re-image your sd-card with modified image file.
dd if=/tmp/openelec-modified.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
