Thanks Brad for the info. Yes, it's an HFS+ formatted iPod, and hence my
problem. I'll try the "touch test" test you suggest. I have a feeling
though, I may be out of luck.
Doug
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Re: [Wlug] Can Feisty Fawn solve an iPod problem?
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:00:35 -0400, douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com wrote:
Is anyone in the group using gtkpod (iPod GUI) on
Ubuntu 6.06 or 7.04?
I use amarok to sync my ipod, but i have used gtkpod in the past.
I installed the gtkpod package yesterday on Ubuntu
6.06 and hooked up my
son Dan's iPod Nano using its USB cable. The iPod icon appeared on
desktop automatically. I checked, using mount command, to see if
/media/ipod was mounted read-write, and it appeared to be. I started
gtkpod and was able to completely read the contents of the iPod, all
350+
songs. So far, so good. But, when I tried, as an
experiment, to create
a
new playlist using gtkpod, and write that change onto
the iPod, I got
several error messages about write failures due to a read-only
filesystem.
Anyone had a similar experience? Any fix or workaround out there?
I have had similar experiences using HFS+ (apple's filesystem) formated
ipods. What is the format of your ipod? When you plugin your ipod look at
the output of dmesg. Sometimes you'll see a message telling you that it's
mounting the filesystem as readonly. If the filesystem is HFS+ then you
will need to disable journaling on the filesystem in order to write back
to
the ipod. As far as i know this can only be done from OS X.
Since i have run into this problem many times before, i always try to
write
to the ipod using a terminal. Simply, 'cd /media/ipod', then 'touch
test'.
This will try to create an empty file on the ipod. If you get filesystem
errors then the ipod is likely mounted read-only.
I'm
considering either finding another open source iPod utility, something
other than gtkpod, or upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04.
I believe most (if not all) open source utils use the same underlying
library, libgpod. If you are seeing filesystem errors changing utils will
likely not help you.
My ultimate goal is to 1) Transfer all the songs from
the iPod to the
Ubuntu laptop,
This should be possible even if the filesystem is read-only.
2) Reformat the iPod for use with iTunes running
under
Vista,
Also, this should be easy to do. If you plugin the ipod to a windows
machine that doesn't recognize the ipod's library, it will ask you if you
want to reformat it.
3) Transfer all the songs from Ubuntu back to the
iPod. I think I
can do steps 1 and 2, but so far, step 3 is a problem. And until I'm
100%
confident that I can write all Dan's songs *back*
onto his iPod, I won't
try reformatting it.
Please check what filesystem that currently resides on the ipod. I have
done all these steps before several times.
Why, you might ask, don't you just use the Apple
eBook that originally
wrote (via iTunes) to Dan's iPod? 'Cause that device now sits in my
daughter Abby's dorm room 400 miles West of here (R.I.T.).
They can make pretty long USB cables now-a-days.
Good luck,
- brad
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