Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: mount -o loop | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:46:04 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"A month of sundays ago Riley Williams wrote:" > > > Does anyone have loopback mounts working right in late 2.0.x > > kernels? > > I have one in use on my system, 2.0.33 kernel under RH 5.0...
OK. I localized the problem to mounting fat12 (i.e. floppy images) by loopback. Can you try that please? I'd like to know if 2.0.33 "fixes" it :-) Or if it's meant to be that way.
> > This is just a prober before I start looking. I have mount 2.5m and > > libc 5.4.38. The RH 4.2 system I tried had what you'd expect. > > Not sure what I should've done, but I compiled a kernel with the
Yeah, that was all fine.
> > I managed to just about run mk2fs on a looped file, but mkdosfs > > refused outright (no geometry). I couldn't mount either. > > I've never been able to get mkdosfs to initialise a file for loopback > either, but mke2fs has no problems - it just asks "Not a device file, > use anyway?" and when I say "y" it goes ahead and sets it up...
Yes, I was wrong. mke2fs works fine. mkdosfs doesn't. losetup /dev/loop0 foo; mount -t msdos /dev/loop0 /mnt hangs (should one use "-o loop" here? I can't recall).
> Best wishes from Riley.
Thanks for the response.
Peter
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