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| -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 |