Leeson 9 slide 53

[Tim Childers]

I am trying to understand what the purpose of the following?

mount -o loop myfs /mnt

[Rich Simms]

-o loop is specifying the use of a loopback for the mount. Usually we are mounting a partition to a directory in the UNIX file tree. If we want to mount a file (instead of a partition) that contains a complete filesystem (like a floppy image, CD ISO, or in this case myfs) we use a loopback mount.

See slides 28-22 of Lesson 5 to see how to use loopback mounts for CD ISOs and floppy images.

- Rich