[Discuss] How to mount an Android device in Linux -- solution

[Brendan Kidwell]

[ ... Android 4.x removes "USB mass storage server"; requires you to use
MTP protocol over USB. Support for that in Linux is immature. ]

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org>wrote:

> On those devices, you now are required to use MTP to access the device
> via USB, which until somewhat recently had little or no support under
> Linux, since solved by libmtp.  I didn't look at this project, but I'm
> guessing it's a FUSE filesystem based on libmtp.
>

Yes that's what it looks like here
https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/blob/master/mtp.go . It references
libmtp.

And in answer to an earlier question, the point of my original post was to
point out "go-mtpfs" from Google as an alternative for mtp-fuse (
https://launchpad.net/mtp-fuse ). I found mtp-fuse to be crashy and
unworkable. My original post could have been a little more clear on that
point; sorry I wrote it in a rush.