Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:44:55 +0100 (BST) | From | Shevek <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.11+/dev/loop problems |
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This happens to me also when there are spaces in smbfs share names, which breaks lots of things. AFAIK the kernel has unmounted the device, it's just left in /etc/mtab, which can be hacked out with vi.
S.
On 26 Jul 1999, Preston F. Crow wrote:
> I've been playing with creating a filesystem in a file, mounting it with the > loopback device, copying files to it, and then unmounting it. In the process > of doing this, the directory acting as the mount point has become corrupted: > % ls -l /mnt > br-xr-S-wx 0 root root 0, 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt > > The loopback filesystem was an ext2 filesystem in a file consisting mostly of > holes (until I filled it up). > > I haven't yet been able to recreate the situation. > > In trying to use /dev/loop0 again, I received the error: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Device or resource busy > The 'df' and 'mount' commands insist that /mnt isn't mounted, though > /proc/mounts > lists it as being mounted. It seems that there was some confusion on > unmounting > it. > > --PC > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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