How to Create and Use ISO Files on Linux

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Last Updated: June 6, 2025

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Learn how to create, mount, or burn ISO images using Linux. Most Linux distributions come with software to create, mount, or burn ISO images. Using these steps, you will le...

Here’s a clean, concise note draft for “Bash Environment & Rsync Backup” that captures everything you’ve been setting up:

Bash Environment & Rsync Backup

Overview

This note documents my personal Bash environment setup and how it’s safely backed up to a NAS using rsync. It includes modular .bashrc configuration, Git-aware PS1, LS_COLORS tweaks, aliases, and functions.

1️⃣ Modular .bashrc Setup

• .bashrc sources scripts from ~/.bashrc.d/

• Example structure:

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Practical RSYNC Advice

Since you said you destroyed your archive with -u, here’s what I’d do going forward:

1. Never run rsync with -u for archival purposes. It’s only safe for “don’t clobber remote changes” deployments.

2. For consolidation:

   • First pass: rsync -a --ignore-existing

   • Second pass: use a different directory and copy remaining conflicting files there, instead of overwriting.

   • Then sort through conflicts with dedup tools.

3. For irreplaceable data (like your music): use a write-once backup strategy — don’t risk overwriting.

✅ So in your case, yes — you were using -u under the ...

✅ Mount Command (for testing)

You can run this manually to test the mount:

  -o credentials=/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775

Replace:

• YOUR_USERNAME with your actual Linux username.

• uid=1000 and gid=1000 with your user/group ID if different (id -u and id -g to check).

✅ 2. Line for /etc/fstab

Add this line to the bottom of /etc/fstab:

//mxuni/wd2-var-www/ /mnt/lan/xiola@mxuni/ cifs credentials=/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

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Practical advice for you now

Since you said you destroyed your archive with -u, here’s what I’d do going forward:

Never run rsync with -u for archival purposes. It’s only safe for “don’t clobber remote changes” deployments.

For consolidation:

First pass: rsync -a --ignore-existing

Second pass: use a different directory and copy remaining conflicting files there, instead of overwriting.

Then sort through conflicts with dedup tools.

For irreplaceable data (like your music): use a write-once backup strategy — don’t risk overwriting.

✅ So in your case, yes — you were using -u under the impression...

Here’s a clean, concise note draft for “Bash Environment & Rsync Backup” that captures everything you’ve been setting up:

Bash Environment & Rsync Backup

Overview

This note documents my personal Bash environment setup and how it’s safely backed up to a NAS using rsync. It includes modular .bashrc configuration, Git-aware PS1, LS_COLORS tweaks, aliases, and functions.

1️⃣ Modular .bashrc Setup

.bashrc sources scripts from ~/.bashrc.d/

Example structure:

How to Create and Use ISO Files on Linux

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Last Updated: June 6, 2025

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 13 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time.

This article has been viewed 28,581 times.

Learn how to create, mount, or burn ISO images using Linux. Most Linux distributions come with software to create, mount, or burn ISO images. Using these steps, you will learn to...