‘Mounty’ – Simple Disk Image Mounter for Ubuntu

By , Published January 27, 2012

Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu  isn’t hard. There are a number of applications available designed to carry out the task.

But Mounty, a system tray applet, is probably the easiest of them.

Mounty Applet in Ubuntu 12.04
 Once open Mounty sits in the System Notification area. Clicking on its icon reveals a menu with the following options:

Clicking on the “Open Disk Image…“ button will open a dialog that will allow you to mount disk image.

The “Remember mounted images“ checkbox will automount your recently mounted images on system startup

The “Use Appindicator“ option will allow mounty to use appindicator instead of systray, it’s enabled out of the box if you are have the package “python-appindicator” installed (e.g. in Unity).

Needless to say – if you tick “Load at startup“ the application will start with your system.

Mounty also sports the ability to mount disc image files directly from your file manager:

Mounty in Nautilus

Install Mounty in Ubuntu

Because we think the tool is pretty handy we’ve packaged it up and placed it in the OMG! Ubuntu! PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu 10.10 through 12.04.

To add and install Mounty from our PPA using the Terminal run the following two commands: -

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kokoto-java/omgubuntu-stuff
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mounty

If you’re a developer interested in playing around with the source code you’ll find it on Launchpad.

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  • http://twitter.com/jrdn_v Jordan Vasquez

    Is that the Zukitwo GTK theme in the second picture?

    • Georgi Karavasilev

      Nah, it’s “Ambiance Dark”, which is also in the OMG! Ubuntu! PPA!, just add it and install the package “ambiance-dark-gtk-theme” (no quotes)

  • http://nosheep.org.ua Алексей Раю

    Very handy – how have they not built it in OSes yet?

    • Anonymous

      On Ubuntu “Archive Mounter” mounted iso’s in the ~/.gvfs/ folder and it’s there by default

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

      It is, mount can mount ISO files. It just didn’t have a pretty GUI.

  • http://sahil-tech.blogspot.com Sahilshines

    sounds great…ehh wine plz make some fastt moves,game iso’s are awaiting….

  • Anonymous

    That’s pretty slick. :D

  • Anonymous

    I’ve seen iso images “mounted” after installing them to a USB drive. But when trying to “unmount” I get a weird error. I haven’t done it in a long while, but think it says something like “file system not found” or something not found. Any idea why? And how to either stop the image from mounting in the first place. or at least be able to actually unmount it without restarting?

    Also, 6th to comment!!!! :-D

  • http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Marky

    What about .raw images?

    • http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy

      IMG = RAW.

      • http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Marky

        Nice. I’ll try this out. Somehow .raw images fails when I try to mount it with “-o loop”.

  • Satchit Bhogle

    I read the article without looking at who the author was. I saw the second screenshot, recognised it as Marlin and thought, “Ah ha! This is Georgi!”

    • Ruben Bakker

      The first screenshot says joey in the top-right corner. Mind = blown

      • Georgi Karavasilev

        YEah, Joey used his screenie for the 1st screenshot :)

    • Georgi Karavasilev

      Every article that includes screenies of Dark magician Girl, ABBA, Megadeth or Marlin is most probably mine :D

  • kilian klaiber

    NICE!

  • Georgi Karavasilev

    They both have :)
    P.S. I am the guy that maintains the OMG! PPA!, cuz Joey loathes packaging :D

  • http://profiles.google.com/neilking Neil King

    how do u change the tray icon?

    • Georgi Karavasilev

      I *believe* it uses the system icon for CD drive :)

      • Nichita Uțiu

        Well it is the CD icon, which looks nice with the default theme, but it doesn’t with faenza. The author should consider using the tray monochrome CD icon instead like brasero does. ;) 

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

      probably in /usr/share/icons   its where the parcellite one is when I changed mine

    • Anonymous

      I’m using Faenza icons and wanted the monochrome tray icon.
      I edited /usr/share/mounty/mounty.py with gedit as root and replaced every “media-cdrom” with “brasero-disc-100″ and it now shows that instead.

  • http://profiles.google.com/luisalvaradox Luis Alvarado

    I need an image mounter that can load cd/dvd with multi-sector or protected format. Similar to Daemon Tools but on Linux. Many offer everything but this two features. And many games (latest ones) come with protected format and multi-sector.

  • http://dmenounos.myopenid.com/ Dimitris

    “Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu  isn’t hard.”

    Can we have a list of each command to do that from the terminal?

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

      sudo mkdir /media/iso
      sudo mount -o loop /path/to/filename.iso /media/iso

      That’s literally all it is.

 
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