Hello, On 04/10/2008, at 2:51 AM, rhn wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# touch /dev/loop0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# losetup /dev/loop0 bigfile > losetup: /dev/loop0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# ls -l /dev/loop0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 3 16:31 /dev/loop0 I'm surprised losetup didn't complain. There's not much point in making loop0 a regular file. I have not tried usb storage but: pico:~# ls -la /dev/loop0 brw------- 1 root root 7, 0 Oct 4 12:08 /dev/loop0 pico:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.208113 s, 5.0 MB/s pico:~# mke2fs foo mke2fs 1.41.1 (01-Sep-2008) [...] pico:~# mkdir /mnt/tmp pico:~# mount -o loop foo /mnt/tmp/ pico:~# ls -la /mnt/tmp/ total 17 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 4 12:12 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 4 12:12 .. drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 4 12:12 lost+found pico:~# mount | grep foo /root/foo on /mnt/tmp type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) I imagine normally /dev/loop* should be created by udev. The fact that it doesn't exist might indicate that you don't have loopback device support in your kernel. Check this: pico:~# grep loop /proc/devices 7 loop If it's not there try "modprobe loop". If it is there, delete your bogus /dev/loop0 and recreate it like this: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
