[parted-devel] parted with iPod 80GB

[Mario Rossi]

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?

Cheers