FS#17009 - [virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.10] /sbin/mount.vboxsf does not exist

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Wednesday, 04 November 2009, 17:27 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 06 November 2009, 16:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
after you have installed virtualbox-ose-additions,
try to run
# mount -t vboxsf yourshare mountpoint

it will fail because /sbin/mount.vboxsf does NOT exist

fix:
create a symlink /sbin/mount.vboxsf towards /usr/bin/mountvboxsf

snippet from man 8 mount
In order to make it possible to treat all types in a uniform way, mount will execute the program /sbin/mount.TYPE (if that exists) when called with type TYPE.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Friday, 06 November 2009, 16:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  in trunk. it will be available on the next rebuild

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