I think that it's encouraging that this conforms to another system.
What about the contents of those directories? I'm thinking that
permissions there might be restrictive. chmod -R will do a recursive change.
Let me know.
P.S.
#1 I doubt that will help.
#2 sounds dangerous. I wouldn't do unless I had a backup to restore with.
#3 Who knows, but I doubt it.
Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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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