How do I mount this ipod? fdisk won't even tell me where it is

Trying to mount a 4th gen ipod on Ubuntu 15.10. It shows up in lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 009: ID 05ac:1203 Apple, Inc. iPod 4.Gen Grayscale 40G

But I don't see anything in fdisk -l:

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 2050047 2048000 1000M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 2050048 2582527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda3 2582528 2844671 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 2844672 256555609 253710938 121G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 457578496 485437439 27858944 13.3G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 485437440 500117503 14680064 7G Intel Fast Flash
/dev/sda7 256557056 441047039 184489984 88G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 441047040 457578495 16531456 7.9G Linux swap
Partition table entries are not in disk order.

Not for nothing, fdisk seems to hang there, without ever showing me the contents of /dev/sdb.

There's a similar question from 2011: How to mount my iPod Touch 4G? but it seems specific to 9.10.

I have gtkpod installed, but it also doesn't seem to see the device (no big surprise since it isn't mounted). The answer to this question how to mount ipod touch 4th generation 16gb points off to a website that walks through using gtkpod but also doesn't say what to do if gtkpod can't even see the device.

1 Answer

Perhaps the ipod is just a content partition without partition table. In that case you'd mount with "mount /dev/sdb /mnt". There should be some traces in /var/log/syslog as to what the device could be called; i.e. whether it is /dev/sdb or not.