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sindi keesan wrote:
>
>       TOTAL   USED    FREE    SHARED  BUFFERS
> loop  1716    1516    140     484     348
> hd    1716    1508    208     484     128
> 
> Difference is 208 versus 140K free (68K) or 8K less used.
> Steven, please explain again how to interpret buffers.  

>From the Linux FAQ (in Slackware /doc directory)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The "free' figure printed by free doesn't include 
memory used as a disk buffer cache--shown in the 
"buffers" column.  If you want to know how much 
memory is really free add the "buffers" amount 
to "free"

> does the loop version load modules differently?

Not that I know of.

> While trying to check this on the other computer 
> I was unable to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del in BL3 hd. 

It should work.  See /etc/inittab

> I could type reboot to reboot.  
> Is typing reboot okay or does it mess things up?

As you can see in /etc/inittab
-------------------------
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
-------------------------
Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL tells init to execute reboot

> I then tried to figure out how to mount the fs.img 
> from BL2 

insmod loop (this step is not necessary in BL3)
mount -o loop fs.img /mnt

> I do not have losetup 

The loop version of BL3 has losetup in /initrd/bin.
It's a statically linked busybox binary.

Cheers,
Steven

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