From 03b4519b356b2aa87ea9a426c116f9830a546e7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:56:50 +0200 Subject: mount: small change to mount.8 loopdev section Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- sys-utils/mount.8 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522