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Can you run rockbox if you format the iPod?
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: itix on January 11, 2009, 02:16:00 PM ---Well... Ubuntu says that it is a read only file system and I can not change any permissions. The iPod also has a lot of files with what appears to be randomly named files (Just random letters and "#¤"-s).
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Sounds pretty much like a broken filesystem.
--- Quote ---I'm wondering if some blocks in the hard drive might be bust...
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Possible, but using a different file system wouldn't have made much of a difference then.
itix:
--- Quote ---Possible, but using a different file system wouldn't have made much of a difference then.
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I'm not so sure about that. The extended file system is a bit more robust than FAT. The native extended file system check is a bit better supported that the vfat-file system check.
It is also easier to run sudo badblocks on an extended file system.
safetydan:
The first question I'd ask is if you're correctly unmounting the device before unplugging it? If you don't you can easily corrupt the filesystem, and this applies no matter the filesystem as well.
itix:
Yep... Or well. Not ALWAYS, but most of the time. If I charge it in any of our windows computers there is no use trying since it always fails to eject the device. Ubuntu does sometimes but works most of the time.
I guess that is a possibility actually. I think I need to be more careful in the future.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: itix on January 11, 2009, 07:46:25 PM ---Yep... Or well. Not ALWAYS, but most of the time. If I charge it in any of our windows computers there is no use trying since it always fails to eject the device. Ubuntu does sometimes but works most of the time.
I guess that is a possibility actually. I think I need to be more careful in the future.
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Well, operating systems cache parts of the filesystem (most notably the FAT itself). If you unplug the player without unmounting it you can trash the filesystem or damage it. In windows you can somewhat minimize this risk by enabling the "optimize for fast removal" option (or something like that), but in general, if you unplug the player without unmounting you are quite likely to cause damage to the filesystem.
This would be the cause for other filesystems as well, btw ...
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