Questions tagged [loop-device]
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What is /dev/loopx?
$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1,6G 19M 1,6G 2% /run
/dev/sda2 622G 227G 364G 39% /
tmpfs 7,8G 1,1G 6,7G 14% /dev/shm
tmpfs …
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losetup: raspbian-20200505.img: failed to set up loop device: Device or resource busy
I am trying to shrink the image file from raspbian in Ubuntu18 so that it become small in size and easy to transfer. I am following this video where the person uses below command to setup a loop device
sudo losetup /dev/loop0 raspbian-20200505.img…
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in login loop
Seen many questions on this matter, but as I can not access CTRL-ALT-F1/2 I'm stuck into this loop.
It keeps asking for password, clean orpheants and back to login.
As I can NOT open any manager/control window it's somekind of strange behavior.
I…
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an 84MB Volume /dev/loop0 popped up and I don't know what it is or why it popped up
So, out of nowhere a 84MB Volume /dev/loop0 popped up. I don't know what it is or why it is there. I did recently install dropbox, Kdenlive, and VLC Media Player. Could one of those programs have caused this? Should I worry? I'm new to Linux. Should…
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How to use a loop device as non-root
Do I need to have root privilege in order to create and use a loop device? Suppose I have an ISO file dir.iso containing an image of the directory dir. I want to mount dir.iso as a directory data and access its files. I've done this in the past…
Paul A.
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