How to mount ISO image (ISO13346 or UDF, ISO9660) in Ubuntu

ISO image is an archieve file also known as disk image of optical disk. These images are used to write optical discs. Most of the bootable software/OS available in image file.

There are two main file systems of ISO file, They are ISO 9660 and ISO/IEC 13346. ISO 9660 filesystem(fs) is used with CD ROM, and ISO 13346(also known as Universal Disk Format(UDF)) is used with the DVD or blueray disks.

Some times we have ISO images, we need to extract the content of the image file.Some images are in ISO 9660 file system and some images are in UDF fs. So to mount these types of images in ubuntu follow the given procedure.

For ISO 9660 file system

• Create a directory in the /media directory with myiso or any name

           #cd /media

           #mkdir myiso

• #mount -o loop -t iso9660 <filename>.iso /media/myiso

       (-t is used to specify the type of the file system)

• Here <filename> is the path to your iso file which has the extension iso

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For UDF (ISO/IEC 13346 ) file system

• Create a directory in the /media directory with myiso or any name

           #cd /media

           #mkdir myiso

• #mount -o loop -t udf,iso13346 <filename>.iso /media/myiso

       (-t is used to specify the type of the file system)

• Here <filename> is the path to your iso file which has the extension iso

Note: if you don't know the which file system the image file contains to extract try using the ISO9660 file system type, if it is not ISO 9660 fs, it will give you a message "This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification". The try using UDF fs type