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Is there a way to mount a file.tar.bz2 without extracting it onto the filesystem?

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Mar 15, 20268132 views
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Is there a way to mount a without extracting it onto the filesystem? I don't care if the mount is read only. Hopefully your answer will also apply to . "mount" in this context is meant to be akin to mounting an ISO file.

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Fix for: Is there a way to mount a file.tar.bz2 without extracting it onto the filesystem?

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If you want to mess with fuse they have a plugin to mount archives, including tar.gz. I'm kind of questioning what you want to do. there is a pretty huge model mismatch between a filesystem (random access to files, random access to bytes in a file) …

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