From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:56:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: mount: small change to mount.8 loopdev section X-Git-Tag: v2.29-rc1~134^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03b4519b356b2aa87ea9a426c116f9830a546e7e;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git mount: small change to mount.8 loopdev section Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index f182ef9595..79d77bc98b 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -2932,8 +2932,9 @@ You can also free a loop device by hand, using .BR "losetup \-d " or " umount \-d" . Since util-linux v2.29 mount command re-uses the loop device rather than -initialize a new device if the same backing file is already mounted with the -same offset and sizelimit. +initialize a new device if the same backing file is already used for some loop +device with the same offset and sizelimit. This is necessary to avoid +a filesystem corruption. .SH RETURN CODES .B mount