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Error with "mount" on Debian 7 x64
I am trying to secure the /tmp and /var/tmp directories by doing the following...
cd /
dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpfile bs=1024 count=1048576
mkfs.ext3 -j /tmpfile
mount -o loop,noexec,nosuid,rw /var/tmpfile /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp
echo “/var/tmpfile /tmp ext3 loop,rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0? >> /etc/fstab
rm -rf /var/tmp/
ln -s /tmp/ /var/tmp
However, when using mount, I get the following error...
mount: Could not find any loop device. Maybe this kernel does not know about the loop device? (If so, recompile or `modprobe loop'.)
Why is this?
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