ipod shuffle, again.
I've used this site's help to get this far, but now I'm stuck. I've added such a line to /etc/fstab
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/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat noauto,owner 0 0 Now when I try to mount, I get Code:
linux:/home/jordan # mount /mnt/ipod |
are you suer that you ipod is fat32? all ipods come from apple formated with hfsplus unless you used this ipod with windows it wont work with fat32
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I have only used that ipod with windows, it has never touched a mac.
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Perhaps I need a better fstab line? That one I got from some one who had not used a shuffle on linux just from the top of his head.
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I don't have a shuffle but my ipod (20G) is /dev/sda3
this is my fstab line (my ipod is mac formated) #iPod /dev/sda3 /mnt/iPod hfsplus users,rw,noauto 0 0 you should do a: fdisk -l /dev/sda it will print up the partition table for your ipod the largest partition should be your music. If it is /dev/sda2 and it still doesn't work check your dmesg and see if you get lots of input output errors. I don't know about the shuffle but the large ipods won't work if your kernel supports efi partitions. You may have to recompile your kernel. |
That's another thing, I've done dmesg , but right now I just get dozens of pages of techno-babble. I really don't feel like picking through thousands of lines not even knowing exactly what I'm looking for? On a side note, what is dmesg, how do you use it, and how can you make it give you the information you need?
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dmesg is a log it restarts when you reboot the computer you can view it page by page like:
dmesg | less or you can search for info like: dmesg | grep cpu but for the ipod I would boot up your computer wait then plug in the ipod and: dmesg the part about the ipod gets added when you plug it in so it should be at the very end oh and | is shift+\ on most keyboards it's used to combine commands like dmesg and grep |
Whoa! Blowing my mind man!
Alright, today I plugged in my ipod and BAM, a screen comes up saying would I like to open the USB mass storage device. So I click 'yes' and I can see everything that's on the ipod. Here's the working dmesg: Code:
usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using address 3 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...r11/sspart.png Now I have two registered ipod's under my partition table, but only 1 plugged into the computer. And it's not under /dev/sda anymore, like it was, the new one is under /dev/sda1 . So I change the /etc/fstab line from /dev/sda to /dev/sda1 and there ya go! Now it mounts! I have no clue what went on, but it's all good. I think I understand why it wasn't working, the front USB port I was using might have been buggy. Now I'm using the back ports. I can't believe that I was so stupid as to not try other USB ports, but the fact that that it worked momentarily on the front port today confuses me. Also the fact that when I plug in the ipod on the back with the working USB ports, nothing pops up telling me it has been plugged in. I'm dazed but pleased it is now working Now on a similar note, how nessesary is gtkpod? Take for example this view of my ipod: Code:
jordan@linux:/mnt> ls -R ipod Notice that all of my music is stored in f00, f01, or f02. Could I not just simply copy music into these files? Wouldn't that work? P.S. If you're wondering what all those boot files are in my ipod, yea, I use my ipod-shuffle as a linux boot drive. Yea baby! |
you cant just unplug your ipod thats why it gave you trouble you must first eject it:
eject /dev/sda1 you could copy files to the music directories but your ipod won't play them because they aren't in your ITunesDB you need either gtkpod (nice gui) or gnupod (command line) to add music so that you can play it on your ipod. |
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