Re: [Devil-linux-develop] mount -o loop

[Serge L. <ser...@gm...>]

Heiko,

yes, that does the trick - with the patch it works fine.

Thanks,
Serge


On 03/27/2012 04:52 AM, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Serge,
>
> there's a new loop-aes patch for the new util-linux:
> http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/util-linux-2.21-20120228.diff.bz2
>
> Maybe this helps
>
> Heiko
>
> Quoting Serge Leschinsky<ser...@gm...>:
>
>> Dominic,
>>
>> thank you and sorry for the false alarm.
>> The problem was narrowed down to util-linux-2.21.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Serge
>>
>>
>> On 03/26/2012 03:05 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2012 04:01, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I probably found a problem with loop devices, but would like to
>>>> make sure it's
>>>> not the only my problem.
>>>>
>>>> root@temp:~ # cat /proc/partitions
>>>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>>>
>>>>        8        0   31285248 sda
>>>>        8        1     999956 sda1
>>>>        8        2     125004 sda2
>>>>        8        3   30160243 sda3
>>>>        7        0      97036 loop0
>>>>      252        0    7340032 dm-0
>>>> root@temp:~ # losetup -f
>>>> /dev/loop0
>>>> root@temp:~ # losetup -a
>>>> root@temp:~ #
>>>>
>>>> I.e. I booted from usb (/dev/loop0 is a system image) and it's listed in
>>>> /proc/partitions, but losetup tool doesn't recognize this loop. It
>>>> cause a hang
>>>> during the next "mount -o loop".
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Serge
>>>
>>> It seems to work okay for me (Devil-Linux 1.6.0-RC3 32bit, server
>>> version, running from 2-partition USB, booting with Syslinux):
>>>
>>> root@Samba:~ # cat /proc/partitions
>>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>>
>>>       3       64  156290904 hdb
>>> ...
>>>       7        0     509118 loop0
>>>       9        0  156290816 md0
>>>     253        0     262144 dm-0
>>>     253        1     573440 dm-1
>>>     253        2     524288 dm-2
>>>     253        3     131072 dm-3
>>>     253        4  152043520 dm-4
>>> root@dl1:~ # losetup -f
>>> /dev/loop1
>>> root@dl1:~ # losetup -a
>>> /dev/loop0: [0801]:33 (/cd/bootcd.iso) read-only
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Dominic