Problems Writing to Your iPod
If you have an iPod (iPhones and iPod touch not included) that you were last using in conjunction with a Mac, you may find that although you can read the files on your iPod, you cannot write files to it. It is most likely that your iPod is formatted in Apple's native HFS+ filesystem, although this in itself is not a problem. The problem is that HFS+ formatted iPods have journaling enabled. Journaling is an HFS+ feature that acts to protect the filesystem from damage due to power surges, power failures, or hardware breakdowns.
As fate would have it, however, the Linux kernel doesn't deal well with journaling-enabled, HFS+ formatted devices. Fortunately, the tweak to fix this is quite simple, and it isn't even particularly ...
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