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-date = 2022-10-04
-title = "How to Mount an MTP Mobile Device on Fedora Linux"
-description = ""
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-
-I recently ran into trouble attempting to mount my GrapheneOS phone to my laptop
-running Fedora Linux via the [Media Transfer
-Protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_transfer_protocol) (MTP) and
-discovered a simple and effective solution.
-
-# Use a USB 3.0 Port
-
-First, ensure that the device was plugged in to the laptop through a USB 3.0
-port, if possible. From a brief glance online, it seems that USB 2.0 ports may
-cause issues with dropped connections over MTP. This is purely anecdotal since I
-don't have any evidence to link showing that USB 2.0 causes issues, but I can
-confirm that switching to a USB 3.0 port seemed to cut out most of my issues.
-
-# Switch USB Preferences to MTP
-
-Secondly, you need to ensure that the phone's USB preferences/mode is changed to
-MTP or File Transfer once the phone is plugged in. Other modes will not allow
-you to access the phone's file system.
-
-# Install `jmtpfs`
-
-Next, I used the `jmtpfs` package to mount my phone to my laptop. There are
-other packages that exist, but this one worked perfectly for me. On Fedora
-Linux, you can install it like this:
-
-```sh
-sudo dnf install jmtpfs -y
-```
-
-# Create a Mount Point
-
-Once you have the package installed, you just need to create a folder for the
-device to use as a mount point. In my case, I used `/mnt/pixel`:
-
-```sh
-sudo mkdir /mnt/pixel
-sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/pixel
-```
-
-# Mount & Access the Phone's File System
-
-Finally, plug-in and mount the device, and you should be able to see all storage
-(internal and external) inside your new folder!
-
-```sh
-jmtpfs /mnt/pixel
-```
-
-The output should look something like this:
-
-```sh
-Device 0 (VID=18d1 and PID=4ee1) is a Google Inc Nexus/Pixel (MTP).
-Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
-```
-
-Now you are mounted and can do anything you'd like with the device's files:
-
-```sh
-cd /mnt/pixel
-ls -lha
-```
-
-From here, you will be able to see any internal or external storage available on
-the device:
-
-```sh
-total 0
-drwxr-xr-x. 3 user user 0 Jan 1 1970 .
-drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 10 Oct 4 13:29 ..
-drwxr-xr-x. 16 user user 0 Apr 21 4426383 'Internal shared storage'
-```