ISO - 9660 Disk Image
A real ISO 9660 disk image with Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions for long filenames, holding a few documented text files. For testing ISO mounting, extraction, and conversion.
- readme.txt
- records.csv
- config.json
Specifications
- Format
- ISO 9660 + Joliet + Rock Ridge
- Members
- 3
- Volume Id
- NOVUS_SAMPLE
What is a .iso file?
ISO is a disc-image format containing a byte-for-byte copy of an optical disc filesystem, most often ISO 9660 or UDF. It packages an entire directory tree as a single mountable image used for CDs, DVDs, and installation media. It can be mounted as a virtual drive or written to physical media.
How to use this file
Use an example ISO to test disc-image mounting, ISO 9660 and UDF filesystem parsing, and tools that extract files from or create bootable images.
How to use this file for testing
“ISO - 9660 Disk Image” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: ISO 9660 + Joliet + Rock Ridge. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Archive fixtures are documented down to their member list (shown on this page) and are deliberately safe — no zip bombs, executables, or hidden payloads. Test extractors against nested, unicode, empty, and encrypted variants.
Related files
- 7z7z - LZMA2 ArchiveA 7-Zip archive using LZMA2 compression, containing a small documented file tree. For testing 7z extraction and conversion.
- 7z7z - Password ProtectedA password-protected 7z archive (AES-256, encrypted header). The password is “novus-example” — printed here on purpose so you can test encrypted-archive extraction. Contains only harmless sample text.
- arAR - Empty Archive (magic only)The smallest valid archive in this catalog: the 8-byte ar magic and nothing after it. ar has no trailer record, so end-of-file is the only end marker, and this is what an empty static library or an empty .deb control archive looks like on disk.
- bz2BZ2 - Bzip2 Single FileA single text file compressed with bzip2 — the container-free codec on its own, for testing decompression and codec detection.
- jsonConvert v2 Archive Member ManifestJSON ground-truth manifest for the canonical compressed-TAR twins, publishing each safe path, byte count, and full SHA-256 digest. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-archive-member-manifest.
- txtConvert v2 Archive SHA-256 ListGNU-style SHA-256 list for the two canonical TAR members, preserving relative paths and full lowercase digests. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-archive-sha256.
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