Eric on 5 Jun 2007 01:20:08 -0000 |
Jeff: It's been several years since I messed with /dev/loopN (and I was mounting encrypted disk images) but I had no problems mounting two at a time by using /dev/loop0 and /dev/loop1. What happens if you try to mount it to the non-existent /dev/loop/1 ? Eric Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > I was surprised to find that I can only mount one ISO image at a time: > > # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop/0 debian-cd-1.iso debian-cd-1 > > Try that again without an intervening umount and I'm told device > busy. E.g., I want to look at > > # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop/0 debian-cd-2.iso debian-cd-2 > > Sure enough, there's no /dev/loop/1, but why should I need it? > > I don't really need to do it, though it would be nice. But I'd really > like to debug my understanding of mount. I thought this should work. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Eric A Lucas # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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