[PLUG] iPod with Linux?

[John Jordan]

On 3 Jul 2005, at 9:13, John Jordan wrote:

Followup --

In re-reading:

http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~adonovan/hacks/ipod.html#hfs

I discovered the following:

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Eric also provided the following tip for mounting his HFS+ iPod in 
read/write mode:

    I had been having a hell of a time getting HFS+ to mount 
read/write. Mounting via "mount -t hfsplus " only let me mount read-
only (useless for then attempting to place files on your iPod). After 
some thrashing about, and trying to deal with the spurious 
message that appeared in /var/log/kern.log about hfs+ not having 
been unmounted cleanly, I happened upon the command 
"hpmount" which works just like regular mount except it is for 
hfsplus filesystems.

    Now I just use "hpmount /dev/sde3" (sde3 is my iPod) and I'm 
good to go.

    Mind you I'm a Debian (Sarge) user. YMMV for other distros.
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So I decided to give that a try. From a regular terminal, here is 
what happened:

jjj at Devil5:/$ hpmount /dev/sda3
*** Warning: You are about to open '/dev/sda3' for writing ***
*** Do you really want to do that? (y/n) ***
y
hpmount: /dev/sda3: error opening medium (Permission denied)
jjj at Devil5:/$ sudo hpmount /dev/sda3
*** Warning: You are about to open '/dev/sda3' for writing ***
*** Do you really want to do that? (y/n) ***
y
hpmount: /dev/sda3: no error (Success)

So then I went back to gtkpod and tried again. Still no success. 
Same error messages.

Remembering a trick, I closed gtkpod and then launched it from the 
terminal with "sudo gtkpod." When it came up I tried again. Still no 
luck.

Maybe someone has additional suggestions. But I know I'm almost 
there!