LinuxQuestions.org - LoopO dev will not mount

Hi all.

this is beginning to get to me. What am I doing wrong, if anything?

root@TUXBOX:~#mkdir /mnt/backup
root@TUXBOX:~# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/backup
returns...... "mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

ok then, how about
root@TUXBOX:~# mount -t reiserfs /dev/loop0 /mnt/backup
returns........

Code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,

      missing codepage or helper program, or other error

      (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use

      ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so

or this

Code:

losetup /dev/loop0

loop: can't get info on device /dev/loop0: No such device or address

interestingly ls -al shows....

Code:

root@TUXBOX:~# ls -al /dev/loop*

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop0

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop1

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop2

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop3

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop4

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop5

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop6

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 2008-10-26 12:43 /dev/loop7

However loop does not show in /proc/filesystems
The loop module is loaded too.

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
mount (util-linux-ng 2.13)

So is it me or is it 'it'??

Really appreciate any help, as always, BashTin.