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. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show me a politician who does not lie through his teeth, and.....I'll show you one who can't find his dentures.
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