When you connect your android phone to a linux box using usb cable, the storage of the phone will appear in your file manager (thanks to automount). It is easily accesible from there, but what if you want to access it via command line? Where is it located?
To know the location of the MTP mounted storage, you need to know your user id
$ id
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),114(lpadmin),134(sambashare)
From the above command, the user ID is 1000. The MTP mounted device can be accessed at /run/user/<user ID>/gvfs
$ ls /run/user/1000/gvfs/
'mtp:host=Android_Android_28f5d3440504'
Just go to the 'mtp:host=Android_Android_28f5d3440504' directory (the name might differ), and you will see your phone's storage.
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