In fstab, I have the following:
mysharedfolder /var/www/myfolder vboxsf rw,uid=33,gid=33 0 0
If I instead run it via the terminal like below, it works. This mounts the folder:
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o rw,uid=33,gid=33 mysharedfolder /var/www/myfolder/
How do I get fstab to mount it on boot?
On 2013-07-31 02:46, 6tr6tr wrote:
> How do I get fstab to mount it on boot?
Is “mysharedfolder” a device?
Where is the path?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
“mysharedfolder” is the name I gave it in VirtualBox under “shared folders”. I’m not certain where the folder’s path is, but there is a folder in “/media/sf_mysharedfolder”. Not sure if that’s where VirtualBox puts the actual mounted path, but likely. If that’s true, then why does the command I ran in the Terminal work?
I just found this info: HOWTO: Use Shared Folders - virtualbox.org which says that fstab is loaded before shared folders are set up. So I need to put the mounting in something that is called at the end of boot. They suggest /etc/rc.local. Will that work? What syntax would I use?
EDIT: This syntax did NOT work:
mount -t vboxsf -o rw,uid=33,gid=33 mysharedfolder /var/www/mysharedfolder
Sorry, it did work! I just had a misspelling, using a zero instead of an “o”. 