3 Ways to Extract and Copy Files from ISO Image in Linux

Let’s say you have a large ISO file on your Linux server and you wanted to access, extract or copy one single file from it. How do you do it? Well in Linux there are couple ways do it.

For example, you can use standard mount command to mount an ISO image in read-only mode using the loop device and then copy the files to another directory.

Mount or Extract ISO File in Linux

To do so, you must have an ISO file (I used ubuntu-16.10-server-amd64.iso ISO image) and mount point directory to mount or extract ISO files.

First create an mount point directory, where you will going to mount the image as shown:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/iso

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