on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:55PM -0500, Alan Shutko insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes: > > > - its filesystem type is actually hfsplus. who knew? (this is the > > latest-generation iPod, which the box says is for mac or > > windows, fwiw). > > The installation process on Windows reformats the drive to VFAT. ok, cool. that makes sense. now i'm having a totally different problem, actually: after figuring out how to mount it, i put about 500 songs on it, and then disconnected and reconnected it a bunch for various reasons. now, it won't mount read-write -- just read-only. when i try to mount it via the line in my /etc/fstab (which is /dev/sda /mnt/ipod hfsplus rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0 ), /var/log/syslog gives the error: Sep 27 16:12:48 homeruns kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only. and then it mounts it read-only, like it says. googling for this, i found a debian-powerpc thread[1] that says that after 32 mounts (which i probably did this morning), hfsplus partitions will stop being mountable read-write, and to use hpmount to get around this. i apt-got installed the hfsplus package with those tools in them, but trying to use hpmount gives me the following error: homeruns:~# hpmount /dev/sda /mnt/ipod hpmount: /dev/sda: Neither Wrapper nor native HFS+ volume header found (Unknown error 4294967295) which is just wack, afaict, seeing as it was mounting happily with `mount -t hfsplus` up until 32 mounts (and still does, just r-o). any insight how to get around this, to make my iPod read-write again? note: this has all been so far on my work computer, which is running kernel 2.6.6. i'm going to take this home and try it on my system there, which has a 2.4.26 kernel, and see if it's any different there. also, i'm using USB 1 here, and USB 1.1 (if that's at all different) at home. slow as molasses. thanks again, </nori> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/08/msg00324.html -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net/jnl ^`~'^ ++ Sponsor me as I run my SECOND marathon for AIDS: ++ ++ http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DC-2844 ++
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