Mark,
I'm at a loss for any other suggestions. As I said before, I know
nothing about ipods. gtkpod developers should be of some help. Good luck
with it, and let us know how you make out.
Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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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