On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:36:28AM +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > On 6/27/07, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to > > > > mount -o loop,offset=32256 /usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw /mnt/ > > > > as I've done successfully several times before, but now I get > > > > mount: could not find any free loop device > > > > What can possibly use loop devices? There are eight processes called > > loop0 through loop7, all started by kthread. But I've no idea what > > they do and if it's them who are using the loop devices. > > > > This is on Fedora 7. > > losetup -a shows > > /dev/loop0: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop1: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop2: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop3: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop4: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop5: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop6: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > /dev/loop7: [080c]:14073859 (/usr/local/kvm-images/WinXP.raw), offset 32256 > > and > > losetup -d /dev/loop0 > > etc. gets rid of them, mount works again. What is still a mystery is > why all these loop devices were set up. > Do you use kvm? The setup scripts could be buggy and forgetting to remove the device. -- lfr 0/0
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