Re: Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm | Solaris system administration | Tech-Recipes

cnn-474564be7dc711a57dc361103c — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:52:39 -0000

How about how to place this in /etc/vfstab

Re: Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm | Solaris system administration | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:49:53 -0000

Is it possible to mount DVD.iso ?

When I run lofiadm -a /cdrom/cdroot/bo651.iso /cdrom/fakedirectory

I get:

lofiadm: size of /cdrom/cdroot/bo651.iso is not a multiple of 512 :?:

Re: Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm | Solaris system administration | Tech-Recipes

SolarisSmurf — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:02:30 -0000

---------------- mount_iso ---------------------

#!/bin/sh
#
# Mount an ISO image using a loopback filesystem.
#

if [ -z "$1" -o -z "$2" ]; then
echo "$0 <full_path_to_iso> <mount_point>"
exit 0
fi

# Add the loopback block device.
# This will return the device path under /dev/lofi/.
printf "Creating loopback device to $1 ... "
LOFS_DEVICE=`lofiadm -a "$1"`
if [ 0 -ne $? ]; then
exit 1
else
echo "${LOFS_DEVICE}"
fi

# Now, mount the device to the mount point specified.
printf "Mounting $2 on ${LOFS_DEVICE} ... "
mount -F hsfs -o ro "${LOFS_DEVICE}" "$2"
if [ 0 -ne $? ]; then
lofiadm -d ${LOFS_DEVICE}
exit 1
else
echo "mounted"
fi

-------------------- umount_iso ---------------------------

#!/bin/sh
#
# Unmount an ISO image mounted over the loopback file system.
#

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "$0 <mount_point>"
exit 0
fi

# Find the loopback device in the list of mount points.
LOFS_DEVICE=`mount | grep "$1" | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ -z "${LOFS_DEVICE}" ]; then
echo "Unable to find loopback device for mount point $1"
exit 1
fi

# Unmount the mount point.
printf "Unmounting $1 on ${LOFS_DEVICE} ... "
umount $1
if [ 0 -ne $? ]; then
exit 1
else
echo "unmounted"
fi

# Delete the loopback block device.
printf "Deleting loopback device ${LOFS_DEVICE} ... "
lofiadm -d "${LOFS_DEVICE}"
if [ 0 -ne $? ]; then
exit 1;
else
echo "deleted"
fi

--------------------------------------

enjoy!!! w00h00!!!

Re: Mount an ISO image on a Solaris filesystem with lofiadm | Solaris system administration | Tech-Recipes

guest — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:03:15 -0000

Way cool example. This really helped me.

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