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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

dependencies of loop device block number, size, etc

a loop device is just a block device so it should be feasible to create a loop device of arbitrary size.  mounting loop devices on ext4 filesystems should not impinge on this fact however i get errors like the one below:

$ sudo mount /dev/loop0 mymountpoint
$EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 6553600 exceeds size of device (3184458 blocks)

sorry if this post is redundant