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authorKarel Zak2007-03-22 20:54:07 +0100
committerKarel Zak2007-03-22 20:54:07 +0100
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losetup: add support read-only loops
This feature has been already supported by mount, but it wasn't accessible by losetup command. Now you can use "losetup -r". Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/mount/losetup.8 b/mount/losetup.8
index f2bb5c832..673fba0fc 100644
--- a/mount/losetup.8
+++ b/mount/losetup.8
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Setup loop device:
.IR offset ]
.RB [ \-p
.IR pfd ]
+.RB [ \-r ]
.in +8
.RB { \-f | \fIloop_device\fP }
.I file
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ device.
Read the passphrase from file descriptor with number
.I num
instead of from the terminal.
+.IP \fB\-r\fP
+Setup read-only loop device.
.SH RETURN VALUE
.B losetup
returns 0 on success, nonzero on failure. When