On 5/4/06, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > > You don't have to anything special to use the iPod as a disk > under Linux. Just follow the directions for using gtkpod (or any > other Linux iPod software). You just mount iPods as a removable > disk to use them under Linux as either a mp3 player or removable > disk. My fstab line is: > /dev/sdb2 /media/ipod vfat noauto,user,sync 0 0 > > Depending on whether you are attaching the iPod through USB or > firewire, you may also need to load a kernel module or two. > Just to add to that, if you're using a recent GNOME desktop (and maybe KDE too, I don't use KDE), the iPod should be automatically mounted as soon as you connect it (at least it works for my shuffle). You can still add it to /etc/fstab if you want, but it's probably not strictly necessary these days (I don't have it in my /etc/fstab). Of course, if you want to access it from outside of a desktop environment, you'll need to do the fstab thing. Jonathon