Loop FS help please.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:17:01 -0700,
  clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> For some reason, I seem to have a mental block when trying to do a mount of 
> a loop filesystem.
> 
> I have a copy of the f8 iso on disk, I would like to look inside of it.
> Im sure that I can do that with a magic mount ... -o loop= ... but cant seem
> to get it right.

You don't use = after loop. Relatively recent versions of mount will guess
the file system type so normally you just need to do something like:
mount -o loop pathtoiso mountpoint
If the type is detected than you may need to add -t iso9660 .