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Hi all,

I'm a very novice Linux user, but I have need of Fedora for my job. I want to share folders on my external hard drive so that Fedora can access them.
Primarily I work on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but I have Virtual Box 3.1.10 installed running Fedora 13.
I have an external hard drive set up with two partitions: the first is Mac OS Extended (Journaled), which is where my virtual machine image is stored. The second is MS-DOS (FAT-32), which I want to use for Linux file sharing.
I have guest additions installed, I have gone into Virtual Box Settings and configured Shared Folders and pointed it to the MS-DOS partition, and I have gone into Fedora, and in Terminal, typed mount -t vboxsf /Volumes/EXCHANGE 'home/usr/Desktop' (where 'usr' is actually my user account name), but every time I get the following error: mounting failed with the error: No such device.

What am I doing wrong?

You need to share a folder. Create a folder on the shared drive and mount that.

Can you be very specific?
I apologize, I'm very new to Linux.

Read the shared folders section in our tutorial first. http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=29
VirtualBox shares folders. Trying to mount a drive as shared folder is doable but harder and is not recommended especially for novices.

Assuming that you have already formatted the new drive and it is actually readable. In the host go to that drive and create a folder. Name it simple, no spaces or special characters. Something like exchange. and give the share a simple name like share.

Guest additions must be installed (in the guest) for shared folders to work.
See Install Linux guest additions in the same link.

Thanks for the response.
I actually got it to work through the simplest of tools: I enabled SMB file sharing on my Mac, then went into Fedora and installed the Samba package (yum install samba) and voila! Instant file sharing.