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Re: [SLUG] mounting off a loop device in 2.2.12

To: "'slug@nospam.slug.org.au'" <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mounting off a loop device in 2.2.12
From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@nospam.slug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:13:46 +1000
In-Reply-To: <B29DBE0C4601D411BEE500A0C95AAE4E06806B@nospam.server2.ussbris>; from MarshallJ@nospam.switch.aust.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:04:41PM +1000
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+ Marshall, Joshua wrote:
| > #mount -t vfat -o loop /home/schakrab/shuv.iso /mnt/cdrom
| > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument
| 
| Firstly, the filesystem type wouldn't be vfat, it'd be iso9660.


That's most probably the problem.


| losetup /dev/loop0 /home/schakrab/shuv.iso
| mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom
| 
| and when you're finished,
| 
| umount /mnt/cdrom
| losetup -d /dev/loop0


That's a waste of typing! :)

- Jeff


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- RE: [SLUG] mounting off a loop device in 2.2.12
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