---
name: "gnome-disk-image-mounter"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-disk-utility"
version: "46.1-3"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gnome-disk-image-mounter"
---

# gnome-disk-image-mounter(1)

Attach and mount disk images

## NAME

gnome-disk-image-mounter - Attach and mount disk images

## SYNOPSIS

**gnome-disk-image-mounter** \[--writable\] \[*URI*...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**gnome-disk-image-mounter** can be used to set up disk images. Both regular files and *GVfs* URIs (such as smb://filer/media/file.iso) can be used in the *URI* parameter. If no *URI*s are given and a window server is running, a graphical file chooser will be presented.

Note that **gnome-disk-image-mounter** will not mount filesystems or unlock encrypted volumes in the disk image - this responsibility is left to the automounter in GNOME Shell to ensure that the same interactions happen as if the disk image was a regular physical device or disc.

By default the disk images are attached read-only, use the option **--writable** to change this.

## RETURN VALUE

**gnome-disk-image-mounter** returns 0 on success and non-zero on failure.

## AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen \<zeuthen@gmail.com\> with a lot of help from many others.

## BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at **https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/**.

## SEE ALSO

[**gnome-shell**(1)](/gnome-shell/1.md), [**gnome-disks**(1)](/gnome-disks/1.md), [**udisks**(8)](/udisks/8.md), [**losetup**(8)](/losetup/8.md)