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authorKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100
committerKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100
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@@ -1015,6 +1015,16 @@ If no explicit loop device is mentioned
(but just an option `\fB\-o loop\fP' is given), then
.B mount
will try to find some unused loop device and use that.
+If you are not so unwise as to make
+.I /etc/mtab
+a symbolic link to
+.I /proc/mounts
+then any loop device allocated by
+.B mount
+will be freed by
+.BR umount .
+You can also free a loop device by hand, using `losetup -d', see
+.BR losetup (8).
.SH FILES
.I /etc/fstab