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| author | Karel Zak | 2016-08-04 11:56:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-08-04 11:56:50 +0200 |
| commit | 03b4519b356b2aa87ea9a426c116f9830a546e7e (patch) | |
| tree | 18ad72bff3ea9959ff3afd9d53de361cd29ada51 /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | libmount: one iteration to detect overlap and reuse loopdev (diff) | |
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mount: small change to mount.8 loopdev section
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index f182ef959..79d77bc98 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -2932,8 +2932,9 @@ You can also free a loop device by hand, using .BR "losetup \-d " or " umount \-d" . Since util-linux v2.29 mount command re-uses the loop device rather than -initialize a new device if the same backing file is already mounted with the -same offset and sizelimit. +initialize a new device if the same backing file is already used for some loop +device with the same offset and sizelimit. This is necessary to avoid +a filesystem corruption. .SH RETURN CODES .B mount |