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From: David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:02:01
Message-Id: 20100119231013.73d8a865@osage.osagesoftware.com
1 I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
2 project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
3 guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
4 below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
5
6 Regards,
7
8 David
9
10 osage relson # df -h
11 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
12 /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
13 /dev/sda4 437G 226G 189G 55% /
14 /dev/sdb1 466G 259G 208G 56% /mnt/usbhd
15 /dev/sdc 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
16 /dev/sdd 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
17 /dev/sde 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
18 /dev/sdf 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
19 /dev/sdg 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
20 /dev/sdh 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
21 /dev/sdi 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
22 /dev/sdj 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
23 /dev/sdk 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey

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Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>