Re: mount MTP phone
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:09:38 +0200
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Curt Howland a écrit :
> > I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different
> > phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations,
> > nada.
>
> I have. With FUSE and gvfs, something like (the computer where I did it and
> kept notes is current shut down):
>
> gvfs-mount 'mtp://[usb:001,002]'
>
> You need to have gvfs-fuse already running, then it appears under
> /run/users/$UID/gvfs/.
>
> libmtp has a few tools to manipulate MTP devices without mounting them, but
> they have 0 documentation. Furthermore, MTP it awfully slow at startup for
> some tasks, so individual commands without a process to keep the library
> open will give awful results. I have started working on a tool with a
> script-friendly FTP-like interface, but not got very far yet due to other
> more pressing projects.
My Android Moto G and E both mount fine with jmtpfs:
~$ jmtpfs ~/mnt
Basic copying and moving files (that's all I have tried) then works
fine.
Umounting works fine with:
~$ fusermount -u ~/mnt
Celejar
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