On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:04 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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 Ding! I do see this in dmesg: hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only. So the system is mounting it read only, even though "mount" shows it as rw and the permissions indicate rw. Using the second fstab line above and mounting as root: [root@prophead ~]# mount ... /dev/sdc3 on /media/ipod type hfsplus (rw,uid=500,gid=500,umask=000) [root@prophead ~]# ls -ld /media/ipod drwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 15 Apr 14 2007 /media/ipod [root@prophead]# ls -l /media/ipod total 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 2 Jan 5 2000 Calendars drwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 4 Jan 5 2000 Contacts drwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 9 Oct 7 2006 iPod_Control drwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 3 Jan 5 2000 Notes > > 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. I'll try turning off journaling using my Mac at home tonight and see if that has any effect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - This message printed using recycled bandwidth - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
