Re: Need help with mount and /etc/fstab

Eric,

I changed the permissions on some of the files and gtkpod still cannot
do what it wants to.

This is what I have right now. This also conforms to what a user on
#debain has on his ipod, except he has a vfat system, so no .journal,
.journal_info_block and .Trashes. gtkpod still cannot initialize the
Calendars, Contacts, Notes and iPod_Control directories. Also, the
-------------- for .journal and .journal_info_block are strange - not
sure what that means

softball:/# ls -al /media/ipod0
total 1029
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 May 6 13:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 6 07:53 ..
d-wx-wx-wt 1 99 99 3 Apr 7 2004 .Trashes
---------- 1 root root 8388608 Jan 15 2004 .journal
---------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 2004 .journal_info_block
drwxrwxrwx 1 emily emily 2 Dec 28 1962 Calendars
drwxrwxrwx 1 emily emily 4 Jan 23 1963 Contacts
drwxrwxrwx 1 emily emily 3 Jan 23 1963 Notes
drwxrwxrwx 1 emily emily 5 May 5 13:30 iPod_Control
softball:/#

Some ideas; not sure which one to pursue first:

1. Change ownership of .journal, .journal_info_block and .Trashes to
emily.emily. Make emily.emily own everything.
1A. chmod a+rwx for all files on the device and owner.group=emily.emily
2. Delete all the files in /media/ipod0 and have gtkpod recreate them. I
have no idea what that will do to the ipod.
3. Connect the ipod to a mac and itunes, add some songs, and then try it
with linux again. Since this ipod is fresh out of the box and never
used, maybe iTunes will correct any problems in the file system. Does
this even sound reasonable??

Thanks for your thoughts!

Mark

Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> I don't think that's the right umask.
>
> The filesystem appears to be mounted rw all right. The problem appears
> to be that Contacts and Notes aren't readable or writable. Compare
> security bits with Calendars. Why they're set that way (by the Ipod, I
> presume) I don't know. If you "chmod u+r Contacts Notes", that should
> turn the read bit for user on. "chmod u+rw Contacts Notes", that
> should make them read-write.
>
> I'd do so with caution. I don't know anything about Ipods, but I'd
> look into its setup, and try and figure out why Calendars is rw, while
> Contacts and Notes are not readable nor writable.
>
> User and group 99 are defined by ipod, but are undefined on your linux
> box, which is why they're listed simply as 99, as the system doesn't
> have a name or group corresponding to that number. I don't think
> that's a problem though, as the security bits for those directories
> are all on.
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> I tried
>> softball:~# mount -t hfsplus -o defaults,user,umask=0222 /dev/sda3
>> /media/ipod0
>>
>> and got the same results...
>>
>> softball:~# ls -al /media/ipod0
>> total 1029
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 May 5 10:13 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 6 07:53 ..
>> d-wx-wx-wt 1 99 99 3 Apr 7 2004 .Trashes
>> ---------- 1 root root 8388608 Jan 15 2004 .journal
>> ---------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 2004 .journal_info_block
>> drwxr--r-- 1 emily emily 2 Dec 28 1962 Calendars
>> d--x--x--x 1 emily emily 4 Jan 23 1963 Contacts
>> d--x--x--x 1 emily emily 3 Jan 23 1963 Notes
>> drwxrwxrwx 1 99 99 5 May 5 13:30 iPod_Control
>> softball:~# Did I add the umask parameter correctly?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Anthony Boynes wrote:
>>
>>> You might try adding the umask option.
>>>
>>> umask=0222
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On 5/6/05, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am trying to figure out the correct parameters to mount my iPod.
>>>>
>>>> I am running kernel 2.6.7-1-386 with Debian sarge. The iPod is
>>>> accessed
>>>> as a scsi device, and I am using gtkpod to access the device.
>>>> However, I
>>>> am having a problem just running mount to access the iPod's drive
>>>> correctly.
>>>>
>>>> No matter what combination of parameters I try, the file
>>>> permissions for
>>>> the mounted files end up as user and group 99, which I think are root,
>>>> and I cannot get rw permissions for the files.
>>>>
>>>> For example,
>>>>
>>>> mount -t hfsplus -o rw,defaults,user /dev/sda3 /media/ipod0
>>>>
>>>> results in
>>>> #mount
>>>> /dev/sda3 on /media/ipod0 type hfsplus (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> #ls -al /media/ipod0
>>>> total 1029
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 May 5 10:13 .
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 6 07:53 ..
>>>> d-wx-wx-wt 1 99 99 3 Apr 7 2004 .Trashes
>>>> ---------- 1 root root 8388608 Jan 15 2004 .journal
>>>> ---------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 2004 .journal_info_block
>>>> drwxr--r-- 1 emily emily 2 Dec 28 1962 Calendars
>>>> d--x--x--x 1 emily emily 4 Jan 23 1963 Contacts
>>>> d--x--x--x 1 emily emily 3 Jan 23 1963 Notes
>>>> drwxrwxrwx 1 99 99 5 May 5 13:30 iPod_Control
>>>>
>>>> I cannot read or write any of the files in Calendars, Contacts or
>>>> Notes
>>>> (no rw) and I cannot add music to iPod_Control (because of the
>>>> user/group 99).
>>>>
>>>> I read the man page for mount and it says "defaults" should set these
>>>> options - rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async, and user
>>>> should
>>>> trump the nouser option for defaults. I want the owner and group to be
>>>> "user" (emily, in this case) and to have "rw" permissions on all
>>>> the files.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me unravel the mysteries of mount? My daughter is
>>>> really pestering me to get her new iPod to work...She is even
>>>> threatening to re-install Windows on her machine to run iTunes!!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
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