From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeYfO-0000xQ-91 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:03:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UF0vRk007320; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:00:57 GMT Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UEvBrB002671 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:57:12 GMT Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=56795 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GeYZb-0005v1-6G for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:57:11 +0100 Received: from cc117081-a.gorre1.fr.home.nl ([217.120.145.219]:41522 helo=manuel.fawlty.mine.nu) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GeYZZ-0004nK-LX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:57:09 +0100 From: Harm Geerts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating loop devices Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:57:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301557.08451.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Archives-Salt: 03ad6b4b-6914-4b7f-a4f0-62ad1aa8a385 X-Archives-Hash: bb34d199cd132ec386c87d3463c58716 On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... > And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine > it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules for this that > they'd be willing to share? > > alan Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel? udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: -> Device Drivers -> Block devices -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list