How to Mount ISO/MDF Images in Linux
Written by BinnyVA on May 21, 2007 – 12:51 pm -
The mount command in Linux is a very powerful command. It can be used to mount any thing from a Samba mount to a ISO image file. The ability of the mount command to read ISO files makes it very useful for me.
My brother has a habit of saving DVD films as a image file. I believe he uses Alcohol 120% to do this. If he wants to view the Film, he ‘mount’ this image using Daemon Tools. He uses windows to do this. After he is done, he hands me this image. I can mount this image without any special tools in Linux - I just need the mount command.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop <Image_File> <Mount_Point>
Mounting Example
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/binnyva/Films/300.iso /mnt/Image
The ‘-t’ option specifies the filetype - this is optional.
This command works with both ISO and MDF images.
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May 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
[...] How to Mount ISO/MDF Images in Linux [...]
July 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Just mounting the .mdf image as a iso9660 image didn’t work for me. I’ve used mdf2iso to convert it first.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Is there any way to mount an nrg image? The above command is not working for me. Thanks.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Try using AcetoneISO
January 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
can some one plz tell me how to mount an image using alcohol120? i dont have a clue im so confused email me at chatinggil101@hotmail.com
January 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
‘Try using AcetoneISO’
But AcetoneISO doesn’t work on Gnome - it’s only for KDE.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just rename the file to .iso in stead of .nrg. That works fine!
Thanx for this tut. Really helped my out!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Thanks for the tip I know the command in Linux is a strong one but never used it for image files before as I don’t use them often.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:51 am
after following above instruction i got this result ……plz help
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
September 5th, 2008 at 4:57 am
MDF can’t be mounted IMHO. And converting to iso doesn’t help either, because you actually can lose data in the convert process. MDF can store damaged sectors (used in some copy protections) and ISO doesn’t.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:27 am
I didn’t succeed to use mdf2iso to convert a 6.4GB mdf file…
It kept complaining about a file too long (maybe a limit at 4GB), even with mdf2iso 0.3.1 (with large file support).
It seems i succeed with using kiso to convert it…
6.4GB iso file allocation is damn too long…
Cheer up
February 27th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Use -t udf
to mount an mdf-image-file.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:08 am
I used mdf2iso successfully but I guess it may have lost the copyright protection sectors.
“-t udf” didn’t work at all, and I don’t see why it would…
May 29th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Check out fuseiso, which allows mounting cd/dvd images that wouldn’t normally be mountable (mdf, nrg)