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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work |
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> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and |
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> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see |
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> below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided? |
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> Regards, |
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> David |
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> osage relson # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot |
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> /dev/sda4 437G 226G 189G 55% / |
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> /dev/sdb1 466G 259G 208G 56% /mnt/usbhd |
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> /dev/sdc 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdd 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sde 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdf 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdg 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdh 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdi 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdj 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdk 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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1) Label the partition and then possibly put mount instructions in fstab? |
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2) Are you properly unmounting the thumb drive each time you remove |
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it? Seems like maybe the system thinks you're not... |
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HTH, |
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Mark |