[anarcat]

Originally Posted by lumpynose

That's android showing you that fake/managed view of the filesystem over usb. If you really want to see everything maybe try adb.

https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb

Interesting. I was assuming this wouldn't work, but it's true it might just do it. Hardly qualifies as a user-friendly solution, unfortunately...

Update: adb doesn't detect any device:

$ adb devices -l
List of devices attached

I have a working adb setup here: I've used it to flash, root and otherwise hack at Android devices without problems before.

I have also tried listing files on the device with jmtpfs, no go.

*But* I found a way to fix the MTP support by hacking at udev, see this other thread for details.