running out of loop devices

[John Summerfied]

Yang Xiao wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:52 -0400, Yang Xiao wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I've ran out of loop devices, I have read that I need to load the loop
>>>module with max_loop=#, but how ?
>>
>>I would think that you needed to put:
>>
>>options loop max_loop=#
>>
>>in /etc/modprobe.conf
>>
>>Paul.
>>--
>>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
> 
> Is there a way to do it without having to reboot?

unmount all your looped mounts
rmmod loop
modprobe loop max_loop=#


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