Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:07:58AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > 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
>
> Erm... What's the point of mounting the whole disk when you seem to
> already know that it's going to fail? If you just need to get the kernel
> to read the partition table, then try "hdparm -z /dev/sdb"
>
> Teaching people to do something that you expect to result in an error
> seems a bad idea to me.
Normally, you'd be correct. In this case though it is a different story,
/dev/sdb1 doesn't appear UNTILL I go through this dance.
See:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg00578.html
for why I suggest this.
P.S. The OPs and YMMV
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