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  • From: Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] mounting an iso -- weird error
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:17:01 +0800

That would be why it doesn't clean up when you just do a umount :)

Chris Dombroski wrote:
Quoting Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>:

from man umount: -d In case the unmounted device was a loop device, also free this
loop device.
as in
umount -d /mnt/cdrom1


It's probably because you've mounted too many times this session... you need to use
losetup -d /dev/loop0 or whatever, as all your loop devices are probably in use... umount doesn't seem to clean them up properly... Perhaps create some more loop devices too, so you don't run out so quickly :)

Damien

Jeremy Kolb wrote:


Yeah but I still get the same error.

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:42, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:


Hmm... I've always just used:
mount -o loop iso.iso /mnt/cdrom1

(ie: no other arguments).

Jonathan Evraire
evraire at tuwg.com

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