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Is it possible to mount a .tar file?

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Mar 15, 202639640 views

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The only result of any import when I searched for this was from 2001. In the intervening decade, have any tools/methods for mounting a tar file as a filesystem (perhaps utilizing fuse) been created? If so, what are they, and how do they work?

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In fact, it seems that at least with newer Ubuntu1 versions it is possible to simply . Then you can mount your archive as 1: I tried in Ubuntu 13.04.

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