[clue-tech] Using iPod w/gtkpod

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Jeff,

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 9:27 pm, Michael Fierro wrote:
> > First and most important, don't touch the iPod as root! gtkpod is
> > going to try to write to the files, but if they're owned by root, or
> > if it is mounted with root as owner, you're gonna have problems. It's
> > best to allow gtkpod to manage permissions.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm not able to mount it as myself.  
> 
> $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ipod
> mount: only root can do that

You have to mount it as root but if you assign the superblock a particular
uid/gid then that user can access the filesystem as if every file was
theirs.

See man mount for more information about this but I think the uid= and gid=
are mount options.

Hope this helps,
Jim

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