[ILUG] Cant write to my iPod anymore

[Michael Thompson]

On 8/25/05, Stephen Shirley <diamond at skynet.ie> wrote:
> 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:
> 

> >
> > 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)
> 
I'd say it's still worth looking at the output of the mount command to
check that the correct device is mounted and with what options.