Saturday, July 02, 2016

Trying to mount my phone sd card on Ubuntu 14.04

Problem
Find the mount point of LG G4 sd card on your linux machine, so I can back it up as an image and then restore it on another card.

Found some good commands on this blog
http://a3linux.blogspot.com/2015/08/linux-block-device-commands.html

This is it so far.. Have not had any success in figuring out where the gvfs-fuse file system is mounted.

Found another answer on stack overflow
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276693/how-do-i-force-gvfs-unmount-a-dead-ssh-mount-on-linux-mint-16-petra

YOur android phone uses gvfs type filesystem. This link above shows how to unmount the file system when you connect your phone to the computer. Still havent figured out where the mount point is.


Apparently this is not possible
http://askubuntu.com/questions/652544/permission-denied-for-dd-of-android-phones-file-system-connected-over-mtpfs-i

Good explaination why you cant copy mtpfs here

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/116275/permission-denied-for-dd-of-android-phones-file-system-connected-over-mtpfs-i