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myudkowsky · 11-21-2011, 10:40 PM

I think I've stumble across the problem with MTP filesystems mounted via mtpfs. The ordinary directory ("folder") creation does not work as expected.

"cp -r ~/foo/calibre/* /media/mtp/calibre", which attempts transfer the calibre library below "foo" to the mtpfs-mounted Asus device, fails. The files seem to have been copies, and you can even umount and mount to see them again in the Linux filesystem; but after umount they are not in the Asus system in any place that I can find. I suspect something very off in the directory metadata.

But if I copy only the files and not the directory structure, the files copy normally and can be seen on the device itself. I suspect this is the correct solution, or possibly a solution that separately copies the directory structure and the files.

11-21-2011, 10:40 PM	#8
myudkowsky Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Andoid	MTP File system does not support normal directory creation I think I've stumble across the problem with MTP filesystems mounted via mtpfs. The ordinary directory ("folder") creation does not work as expected. "cp -r ~/foo/calibre/* /media/mtp/calibre", which attempts transfer the calibre library below "foo" to the mtpfs-mounted Asus device, fails. The files seem to have been copies, and you can even umount and mount to see them again in the Linux filesystem; but after umount they are not in the Asus system in any place that I can find. I suspect something very off in the directory metadata. But if I copy only the files and not the directory structure, the files copy normally and can be seen on the device itself. I suspect this is the correct solution, or possibly a solution that separately copies the directory structure and the files.