Ten years later: How do I NOW mount my Android phone?

Richard T

7/9/24, 6:04 PM

Please note: I'm only asking because I'm lacking TEN "reputation points" in THIS Stack-Exchange venue as otherwise I'd have posted a modern answer here. (As an aside, PERHAPS the algorithm should consider reputations at affiliated stack-exchange venues?)

All I want and need to do is mount an Android phone on a modern installation (in this case Fedora 38, but there IS NO Fedora stack-exchange venue, and this ubuntu community seems to be taking up the slack quite readily)...

NONE of the answers there worked for me. And, I spent HOURS trying.

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steeldriver

7/9/24, 9:25 PM

You can post Fedora questions on [unix.stackexchange.com](https://unix.stackexchange.com/)

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Ubuntu

Richard T

7/9/24, 6:04 PM

The answer is:

Install mtpfs, or jmtpfs, depending on your distribution.
Create a mount point (ie: mkdir -somewhere- )
Mount the phone with the appropriate mount-command for your distribution.

In my case, I was frustrated that I was pointed somewhere to use fusermount as the mount-command I wanted, but it WOULD NOT WORK, complaining:

fusermount: old style mounting not supported

I then, on a lark, tried:

jmtpfs /media/phone0

and it worked!

Later, I tried unmounting with:

jmtpfs -u /media/phone0

And that worked, too!

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Jos

7/9/24, 6:30 PM

Do we need to connect the phone using a USB cable, or does it work over the network? Also, to limit the answer to Ubuntu (and keeping it ontopic), `mtpfs` is not available on modern Ubuntu systems, but `jmptfs` is.

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