[parted-devel] parted with iPod 80GB

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:56 +0000, Mario Rossi wrote:
> On 3/19/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
> > This has been reported on Fedora Core 6 to me as well... iPods and
> > problems using parted.
> >
> > From what you have provided, there appears to be a single FAT32
> > partition containing all of the data.  I'm not sure how Apple partitions
> > the disk that way, but they are probably not using a standard DOS disk
> > label, which would be my guess as to why you get the unrecognized
> > disklabel error when doing a 'parted print'.
> >
> > I don't have an iPod and I don't know how to fix this issue without an
> > iPod.  If someone can provide specifications as to the disk layout in an
> > iPod, that would also be acceptable.
> 
> If I give you the raw content of the first part of the disk (using
> dd), and some info about the geometry, will you be able to analyse it?

I can try.  That will probably help figure out how to read the label.
I'd prefer a copy of the entire disk, but that might be too large.  If
you can blank it out, then dd the disk and gzip the image, that would
work.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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