Procedure to mount ISO file/images under Linuxįirst, you must login as a root user, if not root user then switch to root user using the su $ su. Let us see all commands and examples in details. So, how do you mount an ISO image file under Linux? You need to use the mount commandas follows: They appear in the mount point directory using following Linux commands. Mounting a file containing a filesystem via such a loop mount makes the files within that filesystem accessible. Loop devices are often used for CD ISO images and floppy disc images. This can be useful for example to provide a block device for a filesystem image stored in a file, so that it can be mounted with the mount command.Ī loop device is a pseudo-device that makes a file accessible as a block device. The loop device is a block device that maps its data blocks not to a physical device such as a hard disk or optical disk drive, but to the blocks of a regular file in a filesystem or to another block device.
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