[sclug] Ipod

[John Stumbles]

Neil Haughton wrote:
> I read a year ago that  you have to be careful to get a 'Windows' Ipod, 
> not a 'Mac' model. The difference is the filesystem that it is 
> preformatted with. FAT is okay, whereas (I read) the Mac one is a bit of 
> a pig if you are connecting to it from Linux. Not sure if this is still 
> relevant with the Nano and other recent models though.

mount -t hfs /dev/ipod /mnt/ipod Just Works (tm) for recent (e.g. debby 
sarge) distros. At least it understands the -t hfs bit - I don'thave a 
real hfs to try it on yet.

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