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On Friday 18 May 2007 10:29, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback |
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> > filesystem. If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try |
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> > mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere |
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> > and make sure you have support for loopback devices in your kernel. |
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> Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried the correct mount loopback |
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> command on /dev/loop2 and I'm getting this error that mentions |
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> /dev/loop0 (how does this work?): |
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> # mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 |
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> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, |
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> missing codepage or other error |
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> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |
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> dmesg | tail or so |
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You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not |
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solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no |
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help, but since you asked for it, here it is). |
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With every mount command, you have to specify at least two things: *what* |
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to mount, and *where* to mount it, in this order. *Where* is usually a |
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path to some (preferably empty) directory. *what* can be various things, |
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depending on what you're trying to mount. For regular disk partitions, |
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it's usually a device file (eg, /dev/sda1). For NFS, it's a string of |
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the form remote_host:/remote/path. For loopback filesystems (ie, |
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filesystems contained in a single file), it's the name of the container |
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file, like your /tmp/r1. When mounting loopback filesystems, the "-o |
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loop" option must be given. The "-o loop" option accepts some optional |
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parameters. One of these is the specification of the loopback device |
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that should be used. |
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To explicitly specify a loopback device, use "-o loop=/dev/loopX". If no |
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loopback device is specificed, then mount will automatically pick an |
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unused loopback device (probably /dev/loop0). Your command |
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# mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 |
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uses an incorrect syntax for the specification of the loopback device |
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(which is optional anyway), and does not tell where to mount the |
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filesystem. So, what you probably want is |
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# mount -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere |
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or just simply |
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# mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere |
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