A.N.Davey at exeter.ac.uk ()
2003-07-19 13:33:05 UTC
Hi all,
I might be going mad, but i'm sure i used to mount loop devices
normally with
# mount -t minix /home/ade/disk/initrd /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0
tried this using busybox ... it says the Block device required.
looked at my /dev and sure enough the loop block device nodes are
there. read through the mount.c code, looks like is tries to find a
loop device for you, how nice, now i know that the =/dev/loopX is not
required i'll never put it in again. Is this the way the GNU mount
does it ? i like the auto loop idea .. but also would prefer the
option of saying which loop dev to use.
maybe others have noticed this and have commented on it, and my
ability to search email archives is rather lacking, i am very sorry
if this is the case.
love the hush shell btw.
- side note , is there anyway to see how much space each applet adds
to the busybox binary.
many thanks
ade
***@beth2.org.uk
***@ex.ac.uk
I might be going mad, but i'm sure i used to mount loop devices
normally with
# mount -t minix /home/ade/disk/initrd /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0
tried this using busybox ... it says the Block device required.
looked at my /dev and sure enough the loop block device nodes are
there. read through the mount.c code, looks like is tries to find a
loop device for you, how nice, now i know that the =/dev/loopX is not
required i'll never put it in again. Is this the way the GNU mount
does it ? i like the auto loop idea .. but also would prefer the
option of saying which loop dev to use.
maybe others have noticed this and have commented on it, and my
ability to search email archives is rather lacking, i am very sorry
if this is the case.
love the hush shell btw.
- side note , is there anyway to see how much space each applet adds
to the busybox binary.
many thanks
ade
***@beth2.org.uk
***@ex.ac.uk