Package losetup: Information

Binary package: losetup

Version: 2.39.2-alt0.p10.1

Architecture: e2kv5

Build time:  Sep 28, 2023, 07:06 PM

Source package: util-linux

Category: System/Base

Home page: https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

License: GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0-or-later and LGPL-2.1-or-later and BSD-3-Clause and BSD-4-Clause-UC and ALT-Public-Domain

Summary: Programs for setting up and configuring loopback devices

Description: 

Linux supports a special block device called the loop device, which
maps a normal file onto a virtual block device.  This allows for the
file to be used as a "virtual file system" inside another file.
Losetup is used to associate loop devices with regular files or block
devices, to detach loop devices and to query the status of a loop device.

Maintainer: Sergey V Turchin