Tag : loop devices

Kpartx Can Not Detach

Posted March 7, 2018 by Leon Fauster & filed under CentOS Comments: 2

Tags: device node, loop devices

OS: EL6 – sometimes I use kpartx -a /mnt/…/lvdisk.img to map the partitions and mount them via /dev/mapper/loop0pXAfter using the disk (unmounting it) I noticed that detaching such mapping via kpartx -d does not result in freeing up the loop devic..

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