See also Mounting images as user for mounting without root privileges. # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop /path/to/file.iso /mount-pointĭo not forget to unmount the image when your inspection of the image is done:
You can mount an ISO image if you want to browse its files. See the mkisofs(8) and xorrisofs(1) man pages for more info about their options. For secure backups, consider using xorrisofs with option -for_backup, which records eventual ACLs and stores an MD5 checksum for each data file. Programs mkisofs and xorrisofs accept the same options. So this example puts the disk directory /home/user/photos, /home/user/mail and /home/user/holidays/photos, respectively in the ISO image as /photos, /mail and /photos/holidays. photos) and a source address on hard disk (e.g. photos/holidays=/home/user/holidays/photos -graft-points Enables the recognition of pathspecs which consist of a target address in the ISO file system (e.g. It is also possible to let mkisofs to collect files and directories from various paths o Sets the file path for the resulting ISO image. r Enables Rock Ridge extension, which adds POSIX file system semantics to an image, including support of long 255-character filenames and Unix-style file permissions. Non-compliant to Joliet specs and not commonly supported. joliet-long Increases maximum length of file names from 64 to 103 UTF-16 characters in Joliet table. J Enables Joliet extension, which allocates special space to store file names in Unicode (up to 64 UTF-16 characters for each file). This volume label will probably show up as mount point if the medium is mounted automatically. The ISO 9660 standard specs impose the limitations of 32-character string length, as well as limiting the characters allowed to sets of: "A" to "Z", "0" to "9", and "_". for_isoĮach of those options are explained in the following sections.īasic options -V Specifies the name (that is assigned to) of the file system. Then generate the image file with mkisofs: The simplest way to create an ISO image is to first copy the needed files to one directory, for example. Making an ISO image from existing files on hard disk Xorrisofs supports the mkisofs options which are shown in this document.Ĭdrskin supports the shown cdrecord options xorrecord also supports those which do not deal with audio CD.
The free GUI programs for CD, DVD, and BD burning depend on at least one of the above packages.
For writing TOC/CUE/BIN files to CD, install cdrdao. The traditional choices are cdrecord for CD and growisofs for DVD and Blu-ray Disk.
4.6.1 Special case: medium error / write error.