From cfbfa558f2728a517e9302b19aaa206ded75a690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:21:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mount: a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page Addresses-Debian-Bug: #478600 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- mount/mount.8 | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 88a91b5b..8e175498 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -2395,16 +2395,16 @@ 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 + +Since Linux 2.6.25 is supported auto-destruction of loop devices and 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). +.B umount +independently on +.I /etc/mtab . + +You can also free a loop device by hand, using `losetup -d' or `umount -d`. .SH RETURN CODES .B mount -- 2.39.5