How to install & use archivemount

[rufwoof]

Hadn't come across this myself before.

In Debian repository get archivemount using synaptic or apt-get or whatever ....

apt-get install archivemount

Create a gzip compressed tar file using something like

tar -cvzf my.tgz /bin

that creates a tar file called my.tgz containing all of /bin

Now you can mount that using archivemount

mkdir mymnt
archivemount my.tgz mymnt

cd to that mymnt mount point, create, run, edit etc. files .... and then when you're done ... unmount it

umount mymnt

and my.tgz will have been updated to reflect the changes etc.

Something like that might perhaps be used instead of a read-only SFS ???

[backi]

Hi !
Good find ruf..!!.......cool stuff !!

[musher0]

Hello all.

Quite interesting.

In some instances, it could indeed be more useful than sfs.

Thanks for sharing your find, rufwoof.

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PS. For anybody who wants to make a pet archive, the source code of archivemount
is here.

I may be back with one, even!

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Voilà ! (Please see attached.)

Compiled on Slim-6: will work on Puppies having an ldd aka glibc aka C library
of 2.17 and over.

BFN