Linux with Android MTP

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/10/23 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013, Shlomo Solomon wrote about "Re: Linux with Android MTP":
>> I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read
>> that MTP is not reliably supported.
>
> When I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, I was "warned" that MTP doesn't
> work well with Linux, that I'll need root my phone to get back USB
> storage. But actually, MTP works very well with Linux - I just installed
> simple-mtpfs (the "simple-mptfs" package in fedora) and run
>
>         simple-mtpfs /mnt/android
>
> And that's it - the Android is mounted in /mnt/android, and it actually
> works much better than the old USB stuff (it is a filesystem mount, not
> a block devices, so you can actually continue to use your phone normally
> while it is mounted!).
>
> To unmount the above mount use
>         fusermount -u /mnt/android
Always unmounting properly is obviously best practise but isn't the
whole point of mtp that unmount isn't strictly needed since you are
not interacting with the fs but rather with some daemon on the device,
so worst that can happen when you unplug is a corrupt file?

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
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