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Go-mtpfs is a simple FUSE-based filesystem written in Go language for mounting Android devices as a MTP device.

Note
Newer Galaxy Devices (S3, S4, Note2, etc.) use their own MTP-stack and do not work reliably, although this should be fixed in newer versions. See Bug#29 for more details.

Installation

Prerequisites

Allow live builds for two packages in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords:

FILE /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
dev-libs/go-fuse **
sys-fs/go-mtpfs **

Kernel

See the MTP meta article or the FUSE article for instructions on enabling FUSE support in the Linux kernel.

Emerge

Install sys-fs/go-mtpfs:

root #emerge --ask sys-fs/go-mtpfs

Configuration

Appropriate users need to be in the plugdev group:

root #gpasswd -a <USER_NAME> plugdev

Usage

Mount:

user $mkdir ~/AndroidDevice
user $go-mtpfs ~/AndroidDevice &

Note: If go-mtpfs is not ran in the background (with & at the end), another console will be needed to browse the device and unmount the device (when finished).

Unmount:

user $fusermount -u ~/AndroidDevice

When the device is unmount, go-mtpfs will quit.

Bugs

  1. dev-libs/go-fuse-9999 right now has a bug 638912 that prevents it from building.
  2. MTP is very unreliable on some devices, old files & directories keep showing up, new ones don't get updated. One way to update media storage database is through SD Scanner.
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