Ipods
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Thu Oct 18 02:04:47 UTC 2007
Rick Stevens wrote:
>> 1) Connected my ipod. Hal detected and mounted it.
>
> I've done both...let Hal do it and manually mounted it myself. Of
> course, as a mere mortal login, I can't mount it, "only root can do
> that".
>
> In either case, the damned thing mounts as root, not as me and has
> 755 permissions. Grrrr!
Hmm, if hal doesn't mount it with the right permissions, that seems
like a bug in the hal rules.
>> 4) Clicked Ok and waited a minute.
>
> I've been waiting over 10 minutes now and only 10GB is used on mine.
Maybe it's spinning it's wheels thinking it may get write access if it
waits patiently? :)
> Again, this is an hfsplus iPod. Could that have anything to do with
> it?
That does seem like the most obvious difference between your setup and
mine.
>> What happens if you manually mount the ipod without any spaces in
>> it?
>
> I get the "Media Device: failed to create lockfile on iPod mounted
> at /media/ipod: Read-only file system" popup. I've tried both of
> these /etc/fstab entries:
>
> /dev/sdc3 /media/ipod hfsplus defaults 0 0
> /dev/sdc3 /media/ipod hfsplus uid=rick,gid=rick,umask=000 0 0
>
> hfsplus doesn't grok either the "user" or "users" options, so root
> has to mount it. That being said, performing "mount /dev/sdc3" as
> root, the only things that change are the user and mode. The first
> line gives root:root and 755 modes, the second rick:rick and 777
> modes.
Weird. With the wide open perms and ownership as rick, you still
can't write to the ipod? Perhaps it's because the ipod partition is
journalized? There's a little info on the Gentoo wiki site about
this:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_hfsplus#Disable_Journaling
> I'm really starting to think this is an hfsplus issue. Nonetheless,
> it's damned annoying.
I can imagine. I do know that I used an older 40GB black and white
ipod which was formatted as hfs+ for a little while. I eventually
converted it to vfat so I could read it from a windows pc at my
brother's. But it did work back then. That was either FC2 or FC4. I
think it was the former.
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