On Fedora 19, the man page for losetup says: Delete all used loop devices: losetup -D That should be "Delete all *unused* loop devices:", I'm sure. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html