ipod on Linux

[David J. Looney]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:30:01
<rafazap at cwnet.com> wrote:

See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/gnupod.html

fdisk doesn't understand the hfs partition codes. Does parted recognize
the mac partitions ?

Can you mount the whole device using something like:

mount -type hfs /dev/sda /mnt/ipod ?  (after mkdir /mnt/ipod, as root)

Or use the fat32 conversion procedure ? 

David Looney

> [root at FamilyPC root]# fdisk /dev/sda
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
> OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in
> memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course,
> the previous content won't be recoverable.
>  
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>  
> Command (m for help): p
>  
> Disk /dev/sda: 6144 MB, 6144284672 bytes
> 190 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 11780 * 512 = 6031360 bytes
>  
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>  
> Command (m for help):
> 
> Of course, at this point I do *not* wish to proceed further on just
> guesses.  

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