Re: 2.3.11+/dev/loop problems

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:35:46 +0200 (MET DST)


Andi writes:

> You have to remove a loopback device first (with losetup -d) before you
> can recreate it. Umounting doesn't do that.

umount will do the losetup -d if and only if mount did the losetup,
provided umount can find this information in /etc/mtab, which is
not the case if /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts.

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