mount usb
Posted: 10. Aug 2010, 12:26
Hi!
I've got a small problem which has me kind of stumped since I couldn't seem to find any info about it neither on google nor here.
First, my system:
Host: Windows 7 64 bit
Guest: Kubuntu 10.04 64 bit
Now that that's out of the way, here's my problem:
I have an external usb hard disk with two fat32 partitions of 125Gb each one.
I want to use it into the ubuntu installed at the virtual machine. For that I add an usb device into the option of VM VirtualBox USB devices.
Once inside ubuntu, the system recognize the device into /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2.
I added into the /etc/fstab file a command line to mount the partitions always into the same folder (I created a folder /media/usb1 and /media/usb2):
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 vfat noauto,defaults,user, 0 0
Then I mount from the terminal the partition: mount /media/usb1
and from this moment I'm able to work with the data that are inside the hard disk.
BUT at some point the partition seems to umount and disappear! the VO VirtualBox still recognize the hard disk, but there is not /dev/sdb anymore and of course I cannot mount the hard disk again!
Any idea??
I would really appreciate any help. Thanks!
I've got a small problem which has me kind of stumped since I couldn't seem to find any info about it neither on google nor here.
First, my system:
Host: Windows 7 64 bit
Guest: Kubuntu 10.04 64 bit
Now that that's out of the way, here's my problem:
I have an external usb hard disk with two fat32 partitions of 125Gb each one.
I want to use it into the ubuntu installed at the virtual machine. For that I add an usb device into the option of VM VirtualBox USB devices.
Once inside ubuntu, the system recognize the device into /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2.
I added into the /etc/fstab file a command line to mount the partitions always into the same folder (I created a folder /media/usb1 and /media/usb2):
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 vfat noauto,defaults,user, 0 0
Then I mount from the terminal the partition: mount /media/usb1
and from this moment I'm able to work with the data that are inside the hard disk.
BUT at some point the partition seems to umount and disappear! the VO VirtualBox still recognize the hard disk, but there is not /dev/sdb anymore and of course I cannot mount the hard disk again!
Any idea??
I would really appreciate any help. Thanks!