Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:39:39PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> 
> > Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick?
> > e.g.
> > Plug it in
> > select connect to PC on phone. 
> > then
> > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt
> > (get some error msgs)
> 
> It gives me this no medium found on /dev/sdb

Did you select "connect storage to PC" on phone like I said?
(That has to be successful before trying anything else!)
You have to enable "USB debugging" on the phone, for Gingerbread it's
under settings ---> applications ---> Development before "connect
storage to PC" will be allowed.

THEN
# mount /dev/sdb /mnt

You should see something similar to:
[4247732.683920] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[4247732.690689] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[4247732.700447] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[4247732.703418] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[4247732.827436] FAT-fs (sdb): invalid media value (0x00)
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

> > then
> > # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> 
> and this gives me special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

Right, of course. Because the above failed.

You can see with the tab key:
root@tal:~# mount /dev/sd<TAB>
You should see sdb1 AFTER doing "mount /dev/sdb /mnt"

Then the contents will be available under /mnt

(I'm presuming you know the basics of moving files from the command
line.)

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