Where is a Camera Mount Point?

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri Oct 24 22:24:05 UTC 2014


On 24Oct2014 16:09, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 24.10.2014 07:50, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> I have plugged a digital camera into my usb port and mounted it using
>> the popup displayed from the auto detect via konqueror (this annoys me
>> as well). When konqueror is launched it displays the contents via
>> Camera:/ which is okay, but subsequently I can't find any entries under
>> /run that represent the camera. I assumed there would be a mount point
>> under /run like there is for a usb flash disk. Given that there appears
>> to not be a mount point under /run, where is it mounted in Fedora 20, so
>> that I can point dolphin (which is what should be launched from the
>> 'Open with File Manager' prompt, not Konqueror) at the mount point
>> rather than having to manually type Camera:/ into the address bar.
>
>ptp != usb_storage
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol
>http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/
>
>modinfo -d usb_storage
>USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/drivers/usb/storage/Kconfig

Oh, and in terms of diagnostics. Instead of poking around where you think the 
mount point should be, just run "mount". If it is not listed anywhere, there's 
no mount point.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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