Hi Janina: I am not sure what you are asking? The standard loop device is something you load with mount, such as: mount file-image /mnt -o loop Where file-image is a file which is an image of a file system of some sort such as ms-dos. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061