Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:15:50 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails? |
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:51:47PM -0200, F.W. Meunier wrote:
> 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" ?
mount will do losetup -d at umount time if and only if it did losetup at mount time, as is recorded in /etc/mtab. With a symlink that info is lost. See mount(8).
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