Mount an ISO File on Linux

Mount an ISO File on Linux

mount iso

Introduction

We want to mount an iso file to a folder. with linux it’s soooooo easy!

Mount

As always, linux have it’s special features. linux’s mount can do this out-of-the-box

 

Prerequisities

you need an:

  • .ISO file
  • empty folder (tmp in this example)

 

Mount iso file

mount filename.iso ./tmp -o loop

 

And here is your ISO file inside the tmp folder! :)

 

Unmount

you can unmount it again by type:

umount filename.iso

 

 Continue to read…

Mount ISO using fstab (Linux tutorial) - mount ISO on boot

 

 

Happy Mounting!