My iPod began behaving oddly today. I plugged it in and tried to copy an entire album to /Music/Evanescence. To all those wondering, let me tell you that rockbox offers you to listen to music placed anywhere on the iPod’s filesystem. That way I don’t need to stick to the default iPod way of organising my music.
Upon clicking “Paste” in the Nautilus window where my iPod’s root directory was open, I got:
You don't have permission to write to this device
What the bloody hell! My iPod is fat32 formatted. Since when did fat32 have permissions. I tried twice and thrice in vain. Had the thing just cracked up ?
I did, “dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1″ (sdb1 on my laptop, check for the right location on your laptop. I suggest you use “blkid”
After a few minutes, it was done. My iPod is back to normal now. I still don’t understand what went wrong. Was it because of rockbox, was it because of rockbox’s id3-tag lookup app, “tagcache” ? I don’t know. Anyway, now you guys know what to do if you face this problem.