Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:21:42AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > Erik Steffl wrote:
> >
> > > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > > smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2
> > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
> > > >      or too many mounted file systems
> > >
> > >
> > > what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on 
> > > /etc/fstab):
> > >
> > > mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod
> > >
> > > what does fsdisk (or other partitioning tools) say about /dev/sda?
> >
> >  so I looked at it on my computer, the fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk are 
> > useless, they claim there is not partition information.
>
> IIRC, all these do not handle hfs?!

  it's not about filesystems, it's about partitions. I don't think 
these could handle it even if there was no hfs+ partition on iPod.

> >  parted (apt-get install parted, I have unstable parted 
> >        1.6.9-3.1) works, it displays partition table which looks 
> > reasonable:
> >
> > (parted) print
> > Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-28610.859 megabytes
> > Disk label type: mac
> > Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
> > 1          0.000      0.030              partition map
> > 2          0.031     32.030              firmware
> > 3         32.031  28610.858  hfs+        disk
>
> This is interseting to me. I will have to try this on my mac!
> -Kev

	erik