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Mount a VirtualBox shared folder on a guest linux system
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mount-virtualbox-share.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
MOUNT_NAME="virtual-box-mount-name"
MOUNT_PATH="/path/to/mount/on/guest"
sudo mkdir -p $MOUNT_PATH
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u $USER`,gid=`getent group $USER | cut -d: -f3`,rw $MOUNT_NAME $MOUNT_PATH
sudo chown `id -u $USER`:`getent group $USER | cut -d: -f3` $MOUNT_PATH
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