Re: 2.2.16: can't remove loop modules

[Steve Dodd]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:03:03PM -0500, Kevin Range wrote:

> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 file /mnt
> 
> and then unmounting it later (umount /dev/loop0)
> 
> I can't mount /dev/loop0 again, I have to use loop1.  Then loop2 and so on...

Is /etc/mtab writable by mount? If not (e.g. it's a symlink to /proc/mounts),
mount won't be able to record that it was using loop, and so umount won't
know to cleanup the loop device.