Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails? | Date | 5 Jan 2002 15:20:05 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20020105215147.GH136@pervalidus> By author: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <0@pervalidus.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On a side note, why do I need to use losetup -d after umount > when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts ? > > mount or loop "feature" ? >
/proc/mounts, unlike /etc/mtab, doesn't tell umount(8) that this was a loopback created by mount(8) as opposed to a preexisting loopback created by losetup(8).
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