You need to remount it writeable too.

Adb shell mount -orw,remount /

Here's the patch:
https://android-review.googlesource.com/58360
On Nov 27, 2014 7:09 AM, "Inamdar Sharif" <isha...@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Yes I had tried this in the first place.
> But still it is unable to label the directories and files properly.
>
> Its says"Unable to set contexts :Read-only file system"
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Subject: Re: label folder in rootfs
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> Define file_contexts entries for /test and /test/xyz and then call
> restorecon /test and restorecon /test/xyz (or just restorecon_recursive
> /test) from your init.<board>.rc file.
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> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Inamdar Sharif <isha...@nvidia.com>
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> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is my problem :
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to create a new folder inside rootfs and add some files to it.
> >
> > Now I want to label this folder something else.
> >
> > Also the folder is read-only.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > Suppose my folder is “test” and I want to label it as “test_file”
> >
> >
> >
> > Also would like to label the files explicitly
> >
> > /test    -> test_file
> >
> > /test/xyz -> xyz_file
> >
> >
> >
> > So how do I do this??
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
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