Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Re: [BLUG] screen

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:24:47AM GMT, Weldon Sams [wsams@indiana.edu] said the following:
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> What is losetup?
>

As I mentioned in my post, it is for setting up loopback devices.
Block devices like disks, not character devices like network cards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_device

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