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Diekan
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Mounting drives

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So far I've gotten:

http://img72.echo.cx/my.php?image=ipod1pq.jpg


As you can see I have the iPod listed, HOWEVER, I am having trouble getting it mounted. I am pretty confident that the partions on the iPod (2 of them) are in FAT32 format - because I use XP in concert with iTunes to manage the music files. Unless, I'm mistaken my iPod isn't HFS+ formatted (which has three partitions). IF that were the case I could mount the device with mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /media/ipod/ But, again I'm using XP for the iPod so I'm almost positive that the drive on the player are FAT32.

Did some searching and couldn't find the *name* of the partition I needed to mount in order to see the device (one partition is for the firmware so on).

Do any of you Linux users have an idea?
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Post by Gidan »

What type of ipod do you have? Do you have a Mac, PC or Mac+PC?

If your using a Mac or Mac+PC your going to need to use the mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /media/ipod/

If you have the PC version your going to want to use mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /media/ipod/

That is sda3 on the mac or mac+pc and sda2 on the PC version.
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