Mounting your Android phone with mtp

This post is really just a short-cut bookmark to the Arch documentation on the topic. This post will walk through the steps required to mount your Android phone using FUSE.

Install the package mtpfs if you don’t already have it on your system. After that’s installed, you’ll need to uncomment the line user_allow_other in your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Plug your phone in and issue the following.

To mount your device:

$ mtpfs -o allow_other /media/your_mountpoint_here

Once you’re done, you can unmount with:

$ fusermount -u /media/your_mountpoint_here