mounting iphone/ipod/ipad from command line in linux

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I do not have one of these devices, but am working on a product where 
people might want to mount their iWhatevers using command line tools.
i now have an IPod for testing.
It gets mounted as a normal uSB storage device and seem to work, but there 
are a number of packages for using the Apple stuff under command line 
linux.
e.g. libimobiledevice-utils.
There also is a script mount-iphone.sh which uses gvfs-mount to mount the 
iphone.
It tells me that the device, refered to by its serial number, is already 
mounted if I boot the machine with the iPod plugged in.
If I plug it in while the machine is running, I can use the script to 
mount as root.  It then says the device is mounted, but not where. 
According to the instructions that goes with the script, one should find 
the name of the device under a directory in $HOME called .gvfs.  I do not 
have such a directory after the mount.
Is any of you doing what I am trying to do?
Should I bother, or will all Apple devices be seen as a USB storage device 
and be mounted without these other scripts?
TIA, Willem