On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson <rel...@osagesoftware.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
