I got an iPod mini for Christmas. Works well in Windows. I am hoping to be able to use it in Linux, I rarely boot Windows. Specifically with Fedora Core, with something like gtkpod.
gtkpod compiles, but I haven't tried _using_ it yet.
I want to do things right and potentially offer it back to community as an rpm package when things are working right (assuming they do ;)
For mounting the device - that works (at least with FireWire) through udev - after creating a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/60-ipod.rules containing:
BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="iPod ", KERNEL="sd?2", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="ipod"
/dev/ipod is created upon attaching to firewire cable. Will mount via mount /dev/ipod /mnt/point
The gtkpod documentation says to use autofs - which is part of Fedora, but nothing else (IE digital cameras etc.) seem to be configured to use autofs ( at least not via /etc/auto.master ) so I was wondering what the "Fedora" way to handle hot pluggable fat32 devices that should be mountable/writable by non root (console) users is. I'm guessing that the device node needs pam to give it console user permission, but you don't know ahead of time what device node it will be - so should that actually be done with udev?
What is the best way to only have the volume actually mount when the device is needed? I've actually tried with the autofs method mentioned in the gtkpod README but that doesn't seem to work in Fedora C3, I'm not sure why - I'll have to double check everything (device does manually mount).
It's only an iPod mini, so if I end up having to restore the iPod because stuff gets messed up - no big loss, it doesn't take long to fill it again ... ;)
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