[sclug] Ipod nano

[Neil Haughton]

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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] Ipod
> From:
> John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk>
> Date:
> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:20:10 +0000
> To:
> n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com
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> To:
> n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com
> CC:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
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> 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.
>

I stand corrected!

:-[

Neil

Happy Christmas and all that stuff to all at Sclug, and may all your 
inodes remain connected over the holiday season.