[linux-audio-user] how to un-ipod some m4a songs.

paul wisehart listreader at lupulin.net
Thu Apr 20 12:43:58 EDT 2006


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:14:22PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:51 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > How is this supposed to work?  Is gnome-volume-manager supposed to
> > create the /media/ipod directory?  Should it already exist?  What are
> > the correct permissions?
> 
> lee, make sure you turn off journalling on the ipod first. you'll need a
> mac os x system, and use the diskutil(1) tool. linux will only mount the
> ipod as a read-only FS if journalling is enabled, because the current
> linux support for journalling on HFS+ is not believed to be robust
> enough.

This is only assuming that you are using a Mac-formatted ipod.
I don't see it mentioned if the ipod in question is formatted
for Winodws or Mac.

-- 
paul w



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