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host OS is linux. guest OS is vista, which i'm accessing on a physical partition (/dev/sdb).

since vbox references the vista OS via the paritition, it seems theres no real need to have it (/dev/sdb) mounted in linux.

doing so would also minimize risk of filesystem contention/corruption, eh?

wamanning wrote:doing so would also minimize risk of filesystem contention/corruption, eh?

YES. Do not ever mount that same partition read/write in the host, or you will certainly lose that partition to corruption.

Mounting it read-only will be safe for the guest, but the host may get confused and think the filesystem has become corrupt.