Mount an ISO file in Linux
Contributed by qmchenry 
Tagged: Linux It is convenient to mount an ISO file directly instead of burning it to a CD first. This recipe describes the command used to mount an ISO image on a Linux system.
To mount the ISO image file.iso to the mount point /mnt/test use this command:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/test
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bob said on October 16, 2008
You fail to explain that this command only works for root.
JOsh said on October 23, 2008
thank you, had not dont that before.
Amit said on November 17, 2008
unable to mount iso file using command mentioned above as each time there is a extracted directory made in test folder
miezebieze said on November 19, 2008
it also works without “-t iso9660″ (mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/test)… When I tried, your command doesn’t work at all…
Ruslanas Gzibovskis said on January 5, 2009
your iso image file system was another ;)
jesla said on January 21, 2009
works fine, how would you unmount
a$$hole said on January 22, 2009
umount /mnt/test
Nokie said on February 7, 2009
eh… it says “mount: mount point /mnt/[name] does not exist”
wat do i do?
bob said on February 9, 2009
you need to create the mount point first, i.e. “mkdir /mnt/test”
Lawrence said on April 14, 2009
lawrence@Inf1n1ty:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
lawrence@Inf1n1ty:~$ sudo -i
root@Inf1n1ty:~# mkdir -p /mnt/disk
root@Inf1n1ty:~# mount -o loop BF1942_1.iso /mnt/disk
BF1942_1.iso: No such file or directory
root@Inf1n1ty:~#
so when i log into root, cannot as it is locked, so use sudo to gain root privileges, Then when I go to mount the image it doesn’t find it.
Is there a certain location that I need to place the iso in question?
michael said on April 19, 2009
what is the path to BF1942_1.iso relative to your current directory?
Should something like
mkdir -p /mnt/disk
mount -o loop /dev/USB/BF1942_1.iso /mnt/disk
… Make any sense?
mainmeat said on September 10, 2009
lawrence – you arent specifying a path for your BF1942_1.iso file.
try
mkdir /mnt/foo
mount -o loop /dir/path/filename.iso /mnt/foo
that should do the trick
Anonymous said on October 21, 2009
Your recipe seems like not working. I have given the command:-
mount -o loop -t iso9660 rld-dmc4.iso /media/Entertainment/Game/Devil May Cry 4 Image/
And I got the o/p:-
rld-dmc4.iso: No such file or directory
Anonymous said on November 30, 2009
mount: only root can do that
jackwade said on March 26, 2010
When you use sudo -i to turn into root, it changes your current directory to root’s home directory, /root, so you’re no longer in your old directory where you can access the file with the relative path you were using before.
X81kilo said on June 30, 2010
thanks. and the comments below about only using root was also helpful.
vps-hosting-online said on August 21, 2010
Not working
Guest said on October 10, 2010
it doesnt because they have made a daemon tools lite for linux yet.
i “mounted an .iso and it opened like a folder not like a cd-rom. i am trying to like linux but it just does NOT measure up.
joe said on November 6, 2010
Linux measures up, and linux doesn’t measure up, depending on who’s using it
it doesn’t “open like a folder,” /mnt/test would = say “E:” (or whatever your cd is on windows)
/ is just the start of your root partition, but if you look at your actual cdrom, the /cdrom(or whatever you have) is just a link to /mnt/cdrom, so there’s not really a difference between /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/test, not anymore than there is between e:(real cd drive) and f:(daemon tools fake cd drive)
Joe said on November 6, 2010
sorry, meant to say / is start of base system
Hgfd said on June 26, 2011
bunch of effing noobs – “I don’t linux! – your tutorial doesn’t work it says no such file or directory” … effing depressing.
Hgfd said on June 26, 2011
bunch of effing noobs – “I don’t linux! – your tutorial doesn’t work it says no such file or directory” … effing depressing.
Roshan said on July 14, 2011
mount -o loop /path where u r file /Mount point
Naveen Nishad said on August 13, 2011
mkdir -p /mnt/test
Ace said on August 30, 2011
what to do if my direction have spaces in its name?
like: /media/Data/Pc Isos/lala.iso
i had to change Pc Isos to isos to make it work.
but is there another way?
qmchenry said on August 30, 2011
@Ace – you can wrap any filename that has spaces with “double quotes” and the OS will treat it all as one filename. When I grab a url from the web, for example, that I’m going to download via command line with curl or wget, I always wrap my pasted content with quotes since things like ampersands really mess with unix shells.
You can also precede a space with a backslash, so /media/Data/Pc\ Isos/lala.iso will also work, but the quotes are usually easier.