FC3, iPod, automount, eject
Jonathan Underwood
j.underwood at open.ac.uk
Fri May 20 10:31:32 UTC 2005
Hi
I recently bought an iPod, and have it working with FC3 with one slight
niggle. When I plug it in (USB), it is automounted, and I can transfer
files with no problems (using gtkpod). However, once I'm done, if I
simply unmount it (either with umount, or by right clicking on the
desktop icon for the ipod), the "Do NOt Disconnect" message remains on
the iPod. I initially tried using eject as the user I was logged in as
(non-root), but that doesn't work. BUT, if I log in as root and do eject
/dev/sda, then the message disappears from the ipod and I can disconnect
it. So, I'm not too sure where the problem is.
Is it correct to be using automount ?
Should I have an entry in /etc/fstab for the ipod ?
Also, and unrelated, I have left the ipod formatted with apple's HFS
filesystem. I have read that kernel support for this filesystem can be
flakey - is this the case?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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