Thank you Christophe, I've formatted the iPod as fat, after backing up the music. I seem to be missing a song or two but we're happy that it's working now.
Best, Jarlath On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Christophe Fergeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/12/1 Jarlath Reidy <[email protected]>: > > I have an old iPod nano which has the hfs filesystem on it. Rhythmbox can > > read the device and I can browse / play all my songs - but I can't add > any > > media to it. Also, when I drag them from Rhythmbox to the desktop, I get > > files with funny names (although they do contain music). > > Is there any way I can get this to work fully? > > If you look at dmesg output after having plugged in the ipod, you'll > see the kernel complains about the ipod being formatted as hfs with > journalling enabled, which forces it to mount it read-only. > Journalling can be disabled with some tweak under macosx (I forgot the > specifics, you can google for "linux disable hfs+ journalling" or > soemthing like that. When that's done, you should be able to write to > the ipod. > > Hope that helps, > > Christophe >
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