Fail to Mount iPod Nano Read-Write
Hi,
I've been scouring teh intarweb for a cure for my iPod issue. There are a few, albeit older, posts here at LQ, but they haven't helped. I'll reproduce my udev rule, then my fstab, then the error message, and the general behavior. In Code:
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules Code:
BUS=="usb", ATTR{product}=="iPod", KERNEL=="sd?2",NAME="%k", SYMLINK="ipod",MODE="0664" Code:
/dev/sdb2 /media/ipod auto nodev,nosuid,user,rw,noauto 0 0 Code:
Media Device: failed to create lockfile on iPod mounted at /media/ipod: Read-only file system Is there a udev thing I need to do? Wouldn't seem so, since it's recognized, but then again, there's no /dev/ipod entry created. I haven't tried any other app, assuming amaroK doesn't have a bug that's responsible. Thanks for any pointers. Daniel |
Which desktop do you use? On my system, there isn't an entry for the device in /etc/fstab, but you can change some options in the properties of the desktop icon. If you use kde and right click on the icon; select properties; select the mounting tab and click the "mount as user" tab.
Some random notes: I made myself a member of polkituser. I don't know if that's important. I also enabled device icons in the desktop -> properties -> behavior setup. It could be that your system is designed differently. In that case you might try using the "uid=" and "gid=" options. This will change the owner/group of the filesystem when it is mounted. If you have a nano, or device with a solid state device, then I think you want to use the same options you would use for a pendrive: rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,utf8,shortname=lower This is how a pendrive is mounted on my system. The nosuid & nodev options enhance security somewhat. The noatime option is important to extend the life of the device by not updating access times, so reading a file won't cause a write. |
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Thanks for your help. Daniel |
When I've had problems updating the tags on an mp3, it was due to there not being write permissions for the group user. After the ipod's drive is mounted look at the permissions with "ls -l". I believe that you want to be the owner and group owner. That means using the "uid=" and "gid=" options. In any event, check the permissions and ownership of the mounted ipod drive.
== P.S. I noticed that my double quotes were converted to " in my prior posts. |
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