Re: [Gtkpod-questions] mounting ipod

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Howell Evans wrote:
> I have couple of questions about the ipod setup process as listed on the 
> website. I had a few differnt problems, and I was wondering if someone 
> could help me with the last leg.
> 
> I tried to do my udev rules as listed on the site but had to modify mine 
> to use serial instead of model as such:
> *
> 
> *BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{serial}="000A2700147EE543",KERNEL=="sd?", 
> SYMLINK+="ipod", GROUP="plugdev"
> 
> 
> This is now creating my /dev/ipod device whenever i plug in my ipod. 
> However I am unable to munt it or to get autofs to work. I can not get 
> any of the autofs part to work. This is what i am currently doing
> 
> auto.master:
> 
> /var/autofs/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2
> 
> auto.removable:
> 
> 
> ipod -fstype=vfat,rw,gid=46,umask=002 :/dev/ipod
> 
> 
> And last but not least this is what happens when i try and mount 
> /dev/ipod /media/ipod
> 
> frodus:/lib/modules/2.6.16/kernel/fs/nls# mount -t vfat /dev/ipod 
> /media/ipod/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ipod,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

Two things I can see:

1) it should probably be SYSFS...==... (comparison), unless you are 
using quite an old package

2) KERNEL=="sd?2" -- otherwise it will try to mount not the iPod 
partition but the device itself. (shuffle will be sd?1).

Cheers,


JCS.