Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:35:46 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: 2.3.11+/dev/loop problems |
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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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