Okay, I give up… how to connect my (Android) phone properly (MTP)?

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:22:56 +0200
Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-08-04 12:52 GMT+02:00 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> 
> > Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > I also tried:
> > > $ gvfs-mount -u /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> > > /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C013%5D
> > > Kunde inte hitta inneslutande montering: Infattande montering finns
> > > inte $
> > >
> > > The error message means something like:
> > > Could not find enclosing mount point: (Infattande) mount point does
> > > not exist.
> > > ”Infatta” means things like ”mount”, but ”mounting mount points”
> > > doesn't make any sense to me… And I don't have a clue what this
> > > message means even in Swedish (which is my native language since I
> > > was born, almost 49 years ago…). I guess it just means that the mount
> > > point doesn't exist (even though it does, doesn't it?)
> >
> > Maybe you should try the command(s) with LC_ALL=C to get English error
> > messages. I don't know if those English error messages would make more
> > sense, but sometimes only the translation isn't useful. So the command
> > above would be this:
> >
> > LC_ALL=C gvfs-mount -u /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ”Error finding enclosing mount: Containing mount does not exist”
> 
> 
> I have tried some more now. It seems like one of my attempts to unmount
> actually worked, in spite of the messages, because I could mount it again.
> However, not to the mountpoint of my choice:
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C gvfs-mount -d /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> /home/guraknugen/Skrivbord/MyPhone
> Mounted /dev/bus/usb/001/013 at
> /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C013%5D
> $
> 
> So it simply mounted it where it use to be mounted, not where I suggested.
> Also, the man gvfs-mount page doesn't say anything about that the user can
> select a place at all. It just says:
>        gvfs-mount [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]
>        gvfs-mount --unmount-scheme=SCHEME
>        gvfs-mount --list [OPTION...]
>        gvfs-mount --monitor [OPTION...]

       gvfs-mount [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

       -d, --device=DEVICE
           Mount the volume with the given device file.

I take this to mean that you replace DEVICE with the device node and
LOCATION with where you want to mount it, but I might be wrong.

Petter

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