Re: [BUG] remount ro on loopback mount leaves unmountablefilesystem behind

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 08:42:20 EST


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:07:10PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Anyway, I'll hard code loop device numbers into the script so
> I can just forget about this problem. Thanks, Christoph.

hardcoding them is a little dangerous because a system might aswell
have them in use already, e.g. for CD images. Just use losetup -f to
find the first free one and keep it in a shell variable.
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