[Novalug] Auto mounting a tar zip or other archive as a virtual file system
Michael Henry
lug-user@drmikehenry.com
Sat Oct 5 06:11:07 EDT 2013
On 10/04/2013 03:33 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr. wrote:
> I found a way that I could 'cd mytar.tar.gz' ( .ios, .zip,
> .rpm and others ) and treat things as if it was a Mounted
> read-only file system at that point. ( ie copy files with 'cp
> -a * /tmp/ )
I didn't know of the package, but on my Fedora 19 system, ``yum
search fuse`` led me to finding ``archivemount`` which appears
to be close to what you're looking for::
yum install archivemount
mkdir mount_point
archivemount archive.tar.gz mount_point
sudo umount mount_point
It doesn't seem to automatically perform a mount such that
you can ``cd`` into the package, though.
> There was also a way to configure the 'auto mounter' so that
> you could 'auto mount' ftp sites, I remember I had a link to
> 'ftp.tux.org' setup that I'd copy/install rpm's through.
> ( this was before I discovered 'ssh' and I'm sure way
> before 'openssh' came out)
>From the above ``yum search fuse`` output, I see a couple of
possible candidates:
obexfs.x86_64 : FUSE based filesystem using ObexFTP
curlftpfs.x86_64 : CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts
based on
: FUSE and libcurl
I didn't try either of these, not having easy access to an FTP
server.
Michael Henry
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