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On 07/25/2014 12:52:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My "excellent adventure" |
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> started |
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> > yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo, |
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> and |
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> > tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere. I |
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> went |
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> > to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and |
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> > improved" way of doing things. |
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> |
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> Improved, maybe, necessary, definitely. The old way of using mass |
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> storage |
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> meant the storage had to be unmounted on the phone first, which could |
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> break running applications. |
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> |
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> > So I installed mtpfs. It works great |
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> > for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet. The mtpfs |
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> command |
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> > immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or |
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> any |
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> > other info. |
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> |
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> I has problems with mtpfs and switched to jmtpfs, which works much |
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> better. Or you can install SSHd on the tablet and use scp/sshfs. |
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I don't have good experience with jmtpfs. Here, it's dead slow and |
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hangs sometimes |
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(connected to my Galaxy S3 mini). |
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But, I have switched to go-mtpfs. This is really fast and seems to be |
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stable. |
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Since I'm lazy I haven't tried to access without root priviledges. |
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Helmut |
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