@@ -1807,23 +1807,18 @@ func (s *DockerDaemonSuite) TestDaemonNoSpaceLeftOnDeviceError(c *check.C) {

 	c.Assert(mount.MakeRShared(testDir), checker.IsNil)

 	defer mount.Unmount(testDir)

-	// create a 2MiB image and mount it as graph root

+	// create a 3MiB image (with a 2MiB ext4 fs) and mount it as graph root

 	// Why in a container? Because `mount` sometimes behaves weirdly and often fails outright on this test in debian:jessie (which is what the test suite runs under if run from the Makefile)

 	dockerCmd(c, "run", "--rm", "-v", testDir+":/test", "busybox", "sh", "-c", "dd of=/test/testfs.img bs=1M seek=3 count=0")

 	icmd.RunCommand("mkfs.ext4", "-F", filepath.Join(testDir, "testfs.img")).Assert(c, icmd.Success)

-	result := icmd.RunCommand("losetup", "-f", "--show", filepath.Join(testDir, "testfs.img"))

-	result.Assert(c, icmd.Success)

-	loopname := strings.TrimSpace(string(result.Combined()))

-	defer exec.Command("losetup", "-d", loopname).Run()

-

-	dockerCmd(c, "run", "--privileged", "--rm", "-v", testDir+":/test:shared", "busybox", "sh", "-c", fmt.Sprintf("mkdir -p /test/test-mount && mount -t ext4 -no loop,rw %v /test/test-mount", loopname))

+	dockerCmd(c, "run", "--privileged", "--rm", "-v", testDir+":/test:shared", "busybox", "sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /test/test-mount && mount -n /test/testfs.img /test/test-mount")

 	defer mount.Unmount(filepath.Join(testDir, "test-mount"))

 	s.d.Start(c, "--data-root", filepath.Join(testDir, "test-mount"))

 	defer s.d.Stop(c)

-	// pull a repository large enough to fill the mount point

+	// pull a repository large enough to overfill the mounted filesystem

 	pullOut, err := s.d.Cmd("pull", "debian:stretch")

 	c.Assert(err, checker.NotNil, check.Commentf(pullOut))

 	c.Assert(pullOut, checker.Contains, "no space left on device")