Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.11+/dev/loop problems | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 27 Jul 1999 18:10:13 +0200 |
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Preston.F.Crow@Dartmouth.EDU (Preston F. Crow) writes:
> I've been playing with creating a filesystem in a file, mounting it with the > loopback device, copying files to it, and then unmounting it. In the process > of doing this, the directory acting as the mount point has become corrupted: > % ls -l /mnt > br-xr-S-wx 0 root root 0, 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt > > The loopback filesystem was an ext2 filesystem in a file consisting mostly of > holes (until I filled it up). > > I haven't yet been able to recreate the situation. > > In trying to use /dev/loop0 again, I received the error: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Device or resource busy
You have to remove a loopback device first (with losetup -d) before you can recreate it. Umounting doesn't do that.
-Andi
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