Re: About Loop Device

Doug McNaught (doug@wireboard.com)
09 Jan 2002 12:04:52 -0500


Michael Zhu <mylinuxk@yahoo.ca> writes:

> Thanks for the reply. But when I try to use the
> command "mount -o loop /dev/fd0 /floppy", the mount
> returns an error saying "mount: you must specify the
> filesystem type". What is wrong? Thanks.

You probably want losetup(8) instead of mount.

-Doug

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