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I am currently running Ubuntu 16.10 on my portable LACIE hard drive. It works perfectly except for one thing: my iPod 4th gen cannot be recognized by Ubuntu. The iPod has iPod linux (unpartitioned), Rockbox, and the default iPod software on my iPod, has a 32 GB SSD and is formatted as a Winpod.

Why isn't my computer automatically mounting my iPod, and what can I do to get my iPod to mount?

Juan Antonio
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Tom Hancock
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  • Could you please [edit] your question to include the output of lsusb and sudo lsblk -f with the iPod connected (via USB I presume)? Thanks. – David Foerster Oct 23 '17 at 22:42
  • I wish I could, I actually swapped to a different computer so Im unable to currently. – Tom Hancock Oct 24 '17 at 00:03
  • Could you please edit your question to include the output of ts="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %T')", then connect your iPod, wait 5 seconds, then journalctl -x --since="$ts". This will show us the system log entries. – waltinator Oct 24 '17 at 17:34
  • I'll try...Last time I did this I woke up to my laptop completely drained. It may display some sort of different output since its i386, not i686 – Tom Hancock Oct 26 '17 at 19:38

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I just tried the command sudo fsck.vfat -a -l -v /dev/sdc2 and it seemed to mount when I put the CF card into the computer. When I later plugged the entire iPod in and ran the same command, this confirmed that it worked.

I thought I'd have to type it in every time, but I don't. Anyways, whoever wants to actually do this can now.

Eliah Kagan
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Tom Hancock
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