On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Chris Knadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If some programs have trouble syncing withe iPod I wouldn't be surprised, > because iTunes for Windows formats the iPod with the NTFS filesystem, which I > have always found is a little quirky to mount with read-write access. > > Using the NTFS support in the Linux kernel (i.e. the 'ntfs' module), you > can make an entry in /etc/fstab with the 'user' option to allow mounting as a > normal user; only I haven't been able to actually *access* the NTFS > filesystem as a normal user once it's mounted using that method. :-/ > > Using the ntfs-3g package it's possible to mount NTFS read-write such that > it's usable as a normal user, but by default it's not possible to *mount* an > NTFS partition as a normal user, though it is possible to set up. For an > explanation, see: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged > Instead of setting the ntfs-3g binary SUID and changing permissions on the > block device, I've been mounting + unmounting the NTFS volume as root and > then accessing it as a normal user. > > So I see NTFS as the stumbling block concerning easy iPod support. >
Interestingly my windows computer seems to be formatting it as FAT whenever I have iTunes reset the thing between attempts. At this point I'm giving up on syncing directly with linux. I spent about four hours and the best I could come up with was Amarok, which requires you to tell it to check for updates, then tell it to download them, then move all the podcasts to a staging area on the left before switching to the device tab and moving them to another staging area on the bottom, then telling it to go ahead and copy over the mp3's. With that much clicking regularly it's less effort to just plug into my wifes computer and remote desktop in to run the sync. There are a lot of great options out there if you primarily use your iPod for music, but things just aren't there yet for exclusive podcast use. So the next project will be getting vmware to work in Ubuntu 8.04-64, then figuring out how to make it run the windows install that shares the computer. Hopefully when Miro supports synchronization it will work less hands-on than Amarok. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
