Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
> below).  Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> osage relson # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> /dev/sda4             437G  226G  189G  55% /
> /dev/sdb1             466G  259G  208G  56% /mnt/usbhd
> /dev/sdc              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdd              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sde              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdf              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdg              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdh              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdi              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdj              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdk              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>
>

1) Label the partition and then possibly put mount instructions in fstab?

2) Are you properly unmounting the thumb drive each time you remove
it? Seems like maybe the system thinks you're not...

HTH,
Mark