Jeff Abrahamson on 5 Jun 2007 01:11:29 -0000


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[PLUG] /dev/loop/0 only once? 

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.

-- 
 Jeff

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