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VirtualBox: 3.2.8
Host: Fedora 13
Guest: Fedora 13

Guest is installed in a physical partition.../dev/sda3 through vmdk. All works well, but is there a way I can view the contents of /dev/sda3 from the host? I shutdown VB, and tried to mount /dev/sda3, but without success. I figure if I can read /dev/sda3, then I can also backup the VM and its data using standard tools.

I'd appreciate all your help!

Thanks...

It's very odd you can't mount the partition. What command did you use? You should be fine using something like this:

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sudo mkdir /mnt/fedora
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/fedora

Now the Guest partition is mounted on /mnt/fedora. This is basic Linux knowledge, I don't see where VB comes to play into mounting local hard drives, other than that you used VB to install an OS on it.

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