Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm

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Created: Nov 05, 2003


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Many software packages can be downloaded in the form of an ISO image. Rather than burning the image to a CD-ROM to access its contents, it is easy to mount the image directly into the filesystem using the lofiadm and mount commands.

Given an ISO image in /export/temp/software.iso, a loopback file device (/dev/lofi/1) is created with the following command:

lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso /dev/lofi/1


The lofi device creates a block device version of a file. This block device can be mounted to /mnt with the following command:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt


These commands can be combined into a single command:

mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso` /mnt

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Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm by Anonymous
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Re: Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm by stighenning



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