Howto create Loop Device on REDHAT, CENTOS or FEDORA
This mini howto explain how to create more loop device on your operating system.You need to create more loop device in some case like encrypted file system or HVM xen virtualization. By default there are 7 devices available, named /dev/loop0 through to /dev/loop7 .
INFORMATIONS
You can find the loop device like that :
# ls -al /dev/loop* brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 0 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 1 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 2 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop2 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 3 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop3 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 4 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop4 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 5 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop5 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 6 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop6 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 7 Mar 19 09:34 /dev/loop7
The creation of the loop device is very simple but you have 2 options for this creation one is without reboot and the other one is with a reboot.
