On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I want to mount more than 8 CD's on loop devices but there are only 8
> available. Is there a way to increase it?
>
> I have looked at losetup, but am not sure whether it will do the job.
As others have mentioned, you can increase the number of loop devices
via a kernel compilation.
But if you are unlikely to use more than 8 *at the same time*, then
autofs may help you. I use it to automagically mount my CD images on
request, by installing autofs and putting things like this in
/etc/auto.cd:
somecd -fstype=iso9660,loop :/home/cdimages/somecd.iso
and
/cds /etc/auto.cd
in /etc/auto.master.
The beautiful thing here is that they will get unmounted when they're
not used, thus decreasing the number of loop devices you will need.
HTH
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com
www.karl.jorgensen.com
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