isomount

Easily mount and unmount iso files and squashfs files.

There is a lot of commonality in the scripts so there is only one real script and the others are symlinks to it.

What's new?

version 00.20.00 (Sun Feb 17 02:17:52 MST 2019)

• Minor bug fixes

• exclude more pseudo filesystems (sigh)

• Dedupe entries in dfh (bind mounts, etc) use --dupes to keep them in

• (00.10.00):

• Still working on autoscaling yad windows. See the tools/ directoy for tools to help automate the creation of the autoscaling.

• The auto-scaling of yad windows in a work in progress. They work on some systems but not all on all systems.

• Added dfh-watch program that repeatedly calls dfh

• (00.05.00) merge dfh code into isomount!

• fix minor (typo) bug in dfh

• Spruce up the gui windows in isomount suite (not dfh)

• Add a --gui option to display results in yad

• Add 4 desktop files that use gui mode. The ones for isomount and isoumount allow for drag-and-drop if they are displayed in rox-filer. The spacefm desktop/pinboard doesn't work and the spacefm filer doesn't work but, like rox-filer, you can drag from it.

• Note: if "stty size" doesn't give us a non-zero width then we automatically use gui mode. This was one of the tricks needed to work with gksu. (((((sigh)))))

• reorganized with bin/ and tools/ directories

TLDR:

Mount an iso file (and its linuxfs file if it is antiX/MX):

isomount /path/to/iso-file.iso

Unmount the most recently mounted iso file (and its linuxfs file if needed):

isoumount

Unmount all the files we have mounted:

isoumount all

Show what files are mounted:

show-isoumount

Show all mounted file systems in a very human friendly format:

dfh

Screen Shots

Mounting

Unmounting

dfh output

GUI mode

Quick Start

If you clone or copy this repo then you can use the utilities directly from the repo. Example:

./isomount /some/iso-file.iso

Use the following command to install the utilities to /usr/local/bin

sudo make install ROOT=

Here are the other Makefile commands:

make help                 show this help
make install              install to current directory

The utilities are still rough around the edges but they are a big improvement over the scripts I've been using for many years.

Usage

isomount [options] /path/to/file.iso

Mount the iso file specified at a directory like /mnt/iso1/. If it is an MX or antiX iso then also mount the /antiX/linuxfs file as a squashfs file.

sqmount [options] /path/to/squashfs-file

Mount the squashfs file specified at a directory like /mnt/sq1/

isoumount [options] [/mnt/iso2|'all']

Umount the most recently mounted iso file. If a mountpoint is given then unmount that mountpoint instead.

If 'all' is given then we umount all of our mounts

squmount [options] [/mnt/sq2|'all']

Umount the most recently mounted squashfs file. If a mountpoint is given then unmount that mountpoint instead.

If 'all' is given then we umount all of our mounts.

clean-isomount [options]

Clean up leftover mountpoint directories.

show-isomount [options]

Show the currently mounted iso and squashfs files

Options

The following options are available for all six commands.

-c --color=<xxx>   set color scheme to off|low|low2|bw|dark|high
-g --gui           show output in a yad window
-h --help          show this usage
-H --header=<type>   change header color: norm, rev1, rev2, rev3
                                         (n,      r1,   r2,   r3)
-q --quiet         only show mountpoints
-Q --Quiet         don't show mountpoint(s)
-s --silent        don't print error message
-v --version       show version number and exit
-V --verbose       be more verbose

Some options may not pertain to all commands.

Notes

Normally I add use a hyphen in the filenames like "iso-mount" to make them more clear but I got rid of them in order to make tab completion a little easier. The four standard commands only require 4 or 3 letters to be typed before you press .

If there is a problem with the symlinks you can get all of the functionality by using the ACTION environment variable. For example:

ACTION=isoumount ./isomount

If you want to unmount something that is not or may not be the last one created then just use the normal umount command. Example:

umount /mnt/iso3

The directory will still remain but it will be removed the next time one of the scripts is called is called that needs root.

If you do not have root privileges and if you call a script that needs needs them then the script uses "sudo" as needed. If you don't have sudo on you system then just make sure you always call them as root.

This started as 36 lines of code that has worked well for me for many years. It has now blossomed to over 400 lines of code. A number of my programs are like that. The start with a core of under 50 lines (often much less) and then grow by a factor of 10 or more. That's user friendliness for you.