On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:19:04 -0400
Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:59:19 -0400
> Kareem Dana <kareemy@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've noticed in kernel 2.4.18 that my loop module remains busy after I
> > umount the device using it. For example
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso /mnt
> > * loop module gets loaded
> > * lsmod shows "loop 7952 1 (autoclean)"
> > * ps ax shows [loop0] process
> >
> > then
> > umount /mnt
> > lsmod shows the same thing - specifically the use of loop as 1 and the
> > [loop0] process remains open. Trying to rmmod loop gives me a device
> > or resource busy error.
>
> For some reason or other, umount didn't losetup -d the device.
>
> Try losetup -d /dev/loop0, and see whether it does what you want, or
> returns some sort of error.
>
> --hobbs
umount: mount-2.11r
losetup worked like a charm. Thanks. Any reason umount would not do that automatically though?
umount -V returns umount: mount-2.11r
- Kareem
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