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Question about using rockbox for audio and original firmware for video- ipod 5g

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soap:
No, that sounds fine, though Menu+Select from within Rockbox is not recommended unless your player is frozen, it is very much like pushing the reset button on your computer - an unexpected power-cycle which doesn't give the operating system a chance to save state.
If you want to reboot Rockbox you should shutdown with a long press on play and then power back on with the Select button whenever possible.
I was just curious if you were constantly Menu+Select rebooting your player and never allowing Rockbox to store a .cfg file...

mrufino1:
This all happened again, and now I am running fsck.vfat, following a post from the ubuntu forum about using it on an ipod- it seems to be stuck though, how long should that take? It worked once, and I may have repeated what I did (it was fixing things again though). Is running this checking for disk errors and blocking off bad sectors? This time I caused the problem in one of several possible ways- My ipod has not been mounting every so often, and putting it in a windows machine and ejecting it from itunes solves that. But I noticed it was showing up in /media/sda2, so I would load things on then reboot the ipod to disconnect- probably not what I should have been doing. Also, I was trying to save a playlist in rockbox earlier, and that is when it crashed- first it said that the playlist directory was gone, then when I rebooted the dreaded black screen showed up. SO, to sum up, if fsck.vfat works, is my disk now healthy and if I reformat will everything hopefully work as it should? Thanks a lot, sorry to be such a screw up-Mark

Chronon:
Yes, rebooting the iPod while mounted to a USB port is not a good idea.  That's definitely a good way to generate filesystem errors.

If you're planning to reformat then I would probably not run fsck.vfat since you'll be generating a new filesystem anyway when you format the drive.  If fsck.vfat detects and fixes all of the errors in the filesystem then a format may not be necessary.  But formatting is a surer way to fix your filesystem woes since you're building a new one from scratch.

mrufino1:
For some reason my ipod randomly mounts under ubuntu, but if I put it on a windows computer and eject it from itunes it then mounts fine. This is now the third time I am having to reformat this though, I'm not sure why this keeps screwing up. the fsck seems stuck. When I run it, it does its thiing, then I get my prompt again. When I enter sudo fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdd2 to automatically repair the filesystem, it goes through some things, then for a bunch of files with strange characters it says Truncating file to 0 bytes, then seems to just sit there. I unplugged it one time and it said I/O error, does this step just take a long time and appear to be inactive or is there something wrong? Thanks-Mark

Chronon:
I'm not too familiar with this specific tool, but I could imagine that a badly broken filesystem could cause some problems or make it take much longer to execute.  How long have you let it run?

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