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[How To]Mount An ISO Image Under Linux

An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system. ISO image files usually have a file extension of .iso. The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but what is known as an ISO image might also contain a UDF (ISO/IEC 13346) file system (commonly used by DVDs and Blu-ray Discs).

To mount an ISO images under Linux

1) You must login as a root user, if not, then switch to root user using following command:
su -
2) Create the directory i.e. mount point:
mkdir -p /mnt/disk

3) Use mount command as follows to mount iso file called disk1.iso:
mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/disk

4) Change directory to list files stored inside an ISO image:
cd /mnt/disk
ls -l

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