![]() ![]() This can be useful for example to provide a block device for a filesystem image stored in a file, so that it can be mounted with the mount command.Ī loop device is a pseudo-device that makes a file accessible as a block device. The loop device is a block device that maps its data blocks not to a physical device such as a hard disk or optical disk drive, but to the blocks of a regular file in a filesystem or to another block device.
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