Mounting a Nexus 7 on Fedora

If you need to transfer several gigabytes of data between your computer and the Nexus 7 tablet, the fastest option is to mount the N7 as a MTP file system. One way to achieve this is through the mtpfs tool which can be found in the Fedora repositories. However, I found it to be buggy and slow. The better option, as mentioned in Linux Format 165, is to use jmtpfs. The installation instructions on the source were a bit out-of-date so here's how to compile jmtpfs:

sudo yum install libmtp-devel fuse-devel file-devel
git clone https://github.com/kiorky/jmtpfs.git && cd jmtpfs
./configure && make
sudo make install

Once installed, mounting the N7 is a breeze. Use the USB cable to connect the tablet to the computer and then create a directory where you want to mount it.

mkdir Nexus
jmtpfs Nexus

To unmount, use the command:

fusermount -u Nexus