mount: could not find any free loop device

[Luciano Rocha]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:24:02PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
>  On 6/27/07, Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > And it should, when the mount command specified the option loop. From
> > the manual:
> >
> > THE LOOP DEVICE
> >    The umount command will free the loop device (if any)  associated
> >    with the mount, in case it finds the option 'loop=...' in /etc/mtab,
> >    or when the -d option was given.  Any pending loop devices can be
> >    freed  using 'losetup -d', see losetup(8).
> >
> > My umount works correctly, with or without offset.
> 
>  You're right! I shouldn't have stopped reading man umount at the first
>  mention of loop. OTOH, it seems like it's a mount and not an umount
>  bug, because the relevant entry in /etc/mtab
> 
>  /dev/loop0 /mnt fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
> 
>  doesn't have the 'loop=...' option. So umount is in its rights not to
>  free the loop device.
> 

Er, could you do an ls -ld /etc/mtab? That looks like /proc/mounts, not
the userland created /etc/mtab.

Or it could be that the fuse wrapper doesn't do the right thing, I
haven't tested any fuse filesystem, just standard iso.

-- 
lfr
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