mount: could not find any free loop device

[Andras Simon]

On 6/27/07, Bob Marcan <bob.marcan at interstudio.homeunix.net> wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:14:12 +0200
> > "Andras Simon" <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The problem is that there shouldn't be any loop devices in use and
> >> there's nothing to unmount. The following transcript demonstrates the
> >> problem:
> >>
> >> [root at localhost ~]# losetup -a
> >> [root at localhost ~]# mount -o loop,offset=32256
> >> /usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw /mnt/
> >> [root at localhost ~]# umount /mnt/
>                         umount -d /mnt
>
>
> >> [root at localhost ~]# losetup -a
> >> /dev/loop0: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset
> 32256
> >
> > That looks like a pretty clear bug in umount to me. I'd suggest
> > turning in a bugzilla on it. (I wonder if it only happens with
> > the offset arg - you'd think people would have noticed a general
> > leak of loop devices before now considering how few of them
> > are available by default).
> >
>
> man umount

Right, so it's mount -d. But then there's a bug in FC5, because there
umount (without -d) does free the loop device :-)

Thanks,

Andras


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