I'm trying to mount a handful of iso images so that their contents can be shared across the network. Fedora Core 1 seems to have a limit of 8 loop devices that I can use to mount these images. I need 9 ;) Here's what I get when I run mount on the 9th image: # mount -o loop yarrow-i386-disc3.iso /shared/redhat/fedoracore1-3 mount: could not find any free loop device But there are more than 8 loop devices listed in /dev: # ls /dev/loop* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 10 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 11 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 12 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop12 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 13 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 14 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 15 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 8 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 9 Jan 30 2003 /dev/loop9 So how do I access the other loop devices so that I can mount more than 8 ISOs? --Wart
