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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 633671b19..f42375fdc 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -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 |