[ILUG] Cant write to my iPod anymore

[Stephen Shirley]

Michael Thompson wrote:
> A read only filesystem could just be that is mounted as another user,
> i.e. root, and or without write permissions.

Yes, but see his previous mail which shows that a) it's mounted as root, 
and... Ah. I see what happened, i think colin replied to me personally 
by mistake. I'll paste in the appropriate bits in here:

> Heres the output of dmesg when I plug in the ipod
> 
> hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2
> usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5ac/0x1204) is not claimed by any
> active driver.
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 334
>   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 1.62
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> 
> 
> Now, when I mount, heres the ls-ld /media/ipod output
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  11 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 /media/ipod/
> 
> and heres the output of id
> 
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

Hope that helps (and that i haven't made an unfounded assumption above)

Steve
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