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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-06-26 11:21:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-06-26 11:21:02 +0200 |
| commit | cfbfa558f2728a517e9302b19aaa206ded75a690 (patch) | |
| tree | 389e07e216c2e1b1386170d625129c66d0b68548 /mount/mount.8 | |
| parent | losetup: suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8 (diff) | |
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mount: a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #478600
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/mount.8 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 88a91b5b2..8e1754987 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -2395,16 +2395,16 @@ 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 + +Since Linux 2.6.25 is supported auto-destruction of loop devices and 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). +.B umount +independently on +.I /etc/mtab . + +You can also free a loop device by hand, using `losetup -d' or `umount -d`. .SH RETURN CODES .B mount |