Ipod Troubles

[Donn]

On Tuesday, 08 July 2008 16:00:13 Juan Kawada wrote:
> ok i'll test that out. I'm just cleaning out my music library, so i'll only
> need to be able to sync temporarily, otherwise syncing just annoys me.
I dunno exactly what you need, but if you want to sync one directory (and it's 
children) with another one then have a look at rsync. It's a command-line 
tool that does very cool stuff.
Example:
rsync -vurt --delete --progress yourmaincollection/ youripod
That will copy everything that's not already in youripod from 
yourmaincollection and will also remove from youripod that which is not in 
yourmaincollection.

-vurt means 1)-v verbose 2)-u skip files that are newer on the target 
(youripod) 3)-r recurse all directories 4)-t copy timestamps
--delete removes files on youripod that are not in yourmaincollection
--progress tells you what it's doing

Check the man page:
man rsync

> more of an all around USB problem than with my ipod, but After I hit safely
> disconnect on my ipod, it still has the big "Do Not Disconnect" on the
> screen. basically I have to turn off the computer if I want to be able to
> take it out safely.
I have found that doing a 'lazy' unmount works quite well. (On my usb stuff, I 
don't have an ipod)
1) Basically find out what /dev your usb is mounted on, type:
mount
Then read the text and identify your ipod.
2) Then make sure all windows and so forth onto that drive are closed.
3) Then do:
umount -l /dev/blah
Where /dev/blah is your ipod. You may have to sudo that command.

hth
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