Re: Need help with mount and /etc/fstab

The directories have some other directories, but all of them are empty.
I did a chmod -R when I made the changes.

I am not sure how to proceed outside of the three options I outlined.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Mark

Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> 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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