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
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Exercise ISO - 9660 Disk Image in its disk image workflow. A real ISO 9660 disk image with Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions for long filenames, holding a few documented text files.
- Expected result
- volume identifier=NOVUS_SAMPLE; 34 logical blocks of 2048 bytes; declared size=69632, actual size=69632. Declared feature checks: members=3; volumeId=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 Testaroo 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.
Generated by generation/archives.py. Free for any use, no attribution required, license.
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.
