Re: loop.o device busy after umount

Kareem Dana (kareemy@earthlink.net)
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:15:50 -0400


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:41:30 +0200
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:33:19PM -0400, Kareem Dana wrote:
>
> > losetup worked like a charm. Thanks. Any reason umount would not do that automatically though?
>
> Read mount(8), the places where losetup is mentioned.

I compiled my system from scratch following the guide of the LFS. LFS recommends that you create a symbolic link from /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab. After reading the mount man page, that seems to be my problem. mtab shouldnt be a symlink. Thanks for the help. I'm going to e-mail the LFS mailing list about their mtab symlink now
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