From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-106478-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NXTdh-0003V0-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:02:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6D49E0A82 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A77E0ACE for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C117BCC9 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:10:13 -0500 (EST) 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 Message-ID: <20100119231013.73d8a865@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 47e42312-d11e-40f6-b2fa-6b2505d82d41 X-Archives-Hash: f7b8d422f6b7de356358c52bd6e76964 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