Allow user mount of ISO on loop device?

[Karl Hegbloom]

It would be nice to have an option to loop mount an ISO image when I right click
on the icon. The 'archive-manager' can look inside a CDROM image, but you
cannot browse HTML files there, for instance. Loop mounting it would allow
that. For now, I'm adding them to /etc/auto.misc, and that works, but it would
be cooler to be able to select 'mount' from the Nautilus menu.

Q: Is there a limited number of loop devices? Are they cleaned up properly by
umount? Does ISOFS support UID mount option?

Q: What about other file system image types, such as user mode Linux drive
images, VMware volumes, or initrd.gz images?

[Andrea Garbarini (garba)]

this is one damn cool feature i'd like to see implemented

[paniq (paniq)]

i second this. its hot.

[Clebson Abati Graeff (cgraeff)]

It would be great. I'm just looking for a way to do that with scripts, but it's not as cool as having a option in the context-menu. It would be nice to umount in Nautilus the same way of ejecting a CD (with scripts you need to choose umount in the context menu of the file you umounted, and it's not graceful)

[Clebson Abati Graeff (cgraeff)]

[...] in the context menu of the file you *umounted*, and [...]

I mean the file you mounted

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

BTW, Feisty does not use pmount any more, we use hal's mounting backend now. Thus this needs a different solution again (using FUSE would do the trick quite nicely; however, since file-roller opens ISO images just fine this still isn't urgent)

[David Tomaschik (matir)]

One should take note of the security implications of this, though they are no different from any removable media: executables, particularly those setuid root...

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

I second this, with a couple cents added:

Has anyone checked out the script at http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/24/nautilus-script-to-mount-iso-files/ ?

What do you think about adding a step to the mounting process creating a symbolic link to /media/iso (or whatever) from the directory where the ISO file is, named after the ISO file? E.g., add the following to the script in the link:
sudo ln -s /media/iso "`dirname $isofile`/`basename $isofile`"

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

Awright, here's a mount script that works in Nautilus and on the shell (albeit with graphical dialogs).

As a bonus, it will create a symlink as described above - I.e., if you mount /home/user/foo.iso, you'll have a symlink at /home/user/foo to the mount point.

Working on the unmount script...

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

PS: To use, just copy the script to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and either:
- right-click one / several ISO files and select Scripts -> mountiso.sh or
- run it in a shell with the file names as parameters

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

...and here's the unmount script. Same procedure.

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

Sorry for all the messages, but there's a new version available - It now checks that the files are ISO compatible before attempting to (un-)mount them. I'll keep posting updates at http://l0b0.net/blog/?p=117

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I'm not maintaining pmount any more.

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Could this script be added to the official Ubuntu repository?