Trying to mount USB drive inside a virtual box

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Ray167

Every time I try to mount my USB stick inside Virtualbox I get "Invalid argument" messages. I type mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive. The USB drive shows up in dmesg, so I am not sure if this is an issue because the OS is being run inside Virtualbox or something else.

Thanks
 
What is host OS? USB drivers for VirtualBox are distributed in the form of separate VirtualBox Extension Pack which is proprietary binary blob. However your command doesn't look right. da0 is the first HDD typically the one on which you have OS itself. Also do you even have /mnt/usbdrive? What is the file system type you are trying to mount. Do you have ntfs-3g installed on FreeBSD if you are trying to use FAT?
 
Oko,

The host is Windows 7. I also downloaded the VirtualBox extension pack as it was recommended on another Linux forum. As for the device node, da0 is what comes up when I plug the device in and when I also use the dmesg command. I also did make the usbdrive folder. The USB device is fat32.

Thanks
 
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