Must mount iPod as root?

[Linuxgirl]

Hello,

I was hoping someone could shed some light on my problem, when I try to mount my iPod, I get this message:

Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged.

Yes, I have visited the site but to linux newcomer it doesn't really make much sense.

How do I go about mounting the iPod as root? ( there are no such options in dolphin) I'm guessing in the console...I tried:

sudo mount sdb1

and got a complaint that it (sdb1) cannot be found in /etc/fstab.

I'm *kinda* new at mounting things manually and would appreaciate any input.

Thanks,

Anna

[cantab]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?

Try adding your user to the 'fuse' group. K Menu > System Settings > User Management > Administrator Mode > Select user > Modify > Privileges and groups > Secondary groups > Check 'fuse > OK.

[Linuxgirl]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?


Thank you for the fast reply, cantab.
However, the error message is still the same...
I googled the given error and it only turned up a few threads ( which is a good thing for other linux users I suppose), mainly regarding external hard drives and memory sticks; nothing useful so far.

Will keep trying though 8)

[cantab]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?

Hang on

are you sure the iPod uses NTFS? According to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod

it will be either FAT32 or HFS+, depending on whether the device was inititially connected to a windows pc or a mac.

[Linuxgirl]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?


Well that's kind of funny...but the error was given by Kubuntu each and every time I tried to mount the iPod (I copy-pasted it-the error I mean). Initially it was plugged to a Windows machine ( Vista 64 bit).The other thing that happens is that when the ipod is plugged in and I open the "Storage Media" it first says "The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly". When I click it again it shows my iPod and everything else - but this happens every time I plug the iPod in...I'll open another post with error as the subject...I noticed that posts with "iPod" in the subject are often "overlooked".


Thank you for your help cantab

[kuby]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?

How do I go about mounting the iPod as root? ( there are no such options in dolphin) I'm guessing in the console...I tried:

sudo mount sdb1

and got a complaint that it (sdb1) cannot be found in /etc/fstab.

The mount command must now what you want to mount where. Mounting is attaching it to your file system. Let's say you want to attach it to the /home/anna/ipod directory, and assuming your ipod is recognized as sdb1, enter:

sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /home/anna/ipod

The option -t auto means type of filesystem is determined automatically

[Linuxgirl]

Re: Must mount iPod as root?


I actually managed to mount the iPod to /mnt/ipod as it says so in the amarok help. It gets autodetected ( within amarok) but then Amarok displays this error message :"Media Device: failed to create lockfile on iPod mounted at /mnt/ipod: Permission denied". I thought it was a user permissions thing so I changed the permissions for /mnt/ipod and its subfolders so that anybody can view&modify content but that didn't help. So now I'm thinking maybe the iPod's the one not allowing changes?

Thank you kuby (now I know how to mount!)