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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:10:13 -0500
From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox,  Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
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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