[Cialug] iPod/Linux oddity

[Tony Bibbs]

Sorry, Ok, I now see that it is mounted at /media/ipod.  That's tolerable but "mount" shows it as:

/dev/sdb2 on /media/ipod type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)

...and that's despite my hal policy which it apparently isn't picking up.  So if i can figure out how to get it to automatically make it read-only I'd happy.  Obviously I can't do this in fstab because using /dev/sdb2 wouldn't work in the case that I plugin a device prior to the ipod.  Maybe I do need a udev hack to make it /dev/ipod still?

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:17:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] iPod/Linux oddity

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:07 -0700, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> Well my first real problem is that I never see /dev/ipod show up and
> it always gets mounted on /dev/sdb2.  Apparently my hal policy isn't
> getting picked up so is there a trick to get this working or a good
> way to test my policy even works?

I don't think that you'll ever see /dev/ipod by changing HAL.  I think
that getting an iPod to show up as /dev/ipod instead of /dev/sda2 is the
job for udev.   Anyway, /dev/ipod vs. /dev/sda2 doesn't really matter as
long as it gets mounted as /mnt/ipod.  Does HAL need to be restarted to
pick up on changes to policy?  Is HAL picking up your policy and
overriding the policy shipped with the OS?

Jeff


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