Mounting Android tablet in Linux

Installation

Install go-mtpfs using these instructions.

Mount

Unlock your tablet before mounting it. This won’t work otherwise.

To mount the tablet’s file system as though it were a directory on your file system.

go-mtpfs ~/mnt &

Note: You don’t need to create the directory beforehand.

Use shell commands to copy files:

cp -an foo ~/mnt/whatever

Unmount

Make sure you aren’t visiting the mnt directory anywhere (in your shell or file browser) before you unmount.

To unmount the device:

fusermount -u ~/mnt

jmtpfs

[2017-08-26 Sat] I now use jmtpfs because I couldn’t install go-mtpfs on Ubuntu 14.04.

Don’t use sudo jmtpfs. Just do:

jmtpfs ~/tablet-mnt