[TriLUG] /dev/loop*

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Tue Feb 12 11:18:16 EST 2002


On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:39 am, you wrote:

> By default, linux only allocates 8 loopback devices when it initializes
> (like, at module-load time if it's loaded as a module).
>
> If you are on a stock kernel, try unmounting all of your loop devices and
> remove the loop module (rmmod loop), then do:
>
>   modprobe loop max_loop=n
>
> ...where n is the number you want to allocate (max 255).

Yep!  That did it!  Thank you very much.  The man page didn't cover this.



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