LINUX INTERNETWORKS
Mounting an iso image is very simple and this simple tutorials explains you how to mount an iso image under a directory in linux. An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc. ISO images can be created from compact disc , certain collection of files and directories by using ISO image creating softwares. The software bootable disc are avail in ISO images. the extension of the image is .iso .
Now i will explain you how to mount an iso image under a directory. Here i am having an image file ” centos.iso ” and i like to mount this image file under /mnt/image
You need login as super user ( root user ) to mount the file system. To login as root user, follow the below command
$ su -
Now create a directory under /mnt to mount the iso file.
# mkdir /mnt/media -p
Mount the iso file
# mount -o loop ~/Downloads/centos.iso /mnt/media
Check the mounted files now
# ls -l /mnt/media/
How to remove the mounted iso image
umount is the command used to remove the mounted image or mounted directories. The following will remove the mounted media.
# umount /mnt/media
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