Creating a Git directory inside the mnt folder

I am using VMWare (Ubuntu) on my Windows machine. I share folders between the operating systems using the /mnt directory.

When I try to us开发者_开发知识库e "git init ." inside the /mnt directory through the VM I get an error msg:

Segmentation fault

Is there anyway I can create a git directory within the /mnt directory?

It seems to be a known bug: http://blog.breadncup.com/2011/02/26/vmware-tool-patch-for-linux-kernel-2-6-3738/

I dig for the resolution, also.