Mount a tar file as a virtual file system

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 17:06 -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Jim Byrnes wrote:
> > Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> Peng Yu wrote:
> >>> It seems that there are more than one way to mount a tar file (say
> >>> .tar.bz2) as a virtual file system. Could anybody let me know what
> >>> might be the best solution so that I can try?
> >> Usually I just click on the icon for the archive file in my file manager
> >> (konqueror). The archive isn't mounted though, the file manager just
> >> looks inside the archive and displays the contents as if it was a normal
> >> directory. But I can't tell you if that is possible with the Gnome file
> >> manager as well.
> >>
> >>
> >> Nils
> >>
> >
> > It is possible in Gnome also by double clicking the file in Natulius.
> 
> This really depends what OP means by mounting a tar file as a virtual 
> filesystem. Both KDE and Gnome (file-roller) do not actually mount the 
> archive as a filesystem, they simply open in the same way that Windows 
> Explorer opens a zip file.
> 
> fuse and libarchive can mount and write to tar archives. There is a 
> howto at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/132196 but I don't know 
> how up to date it is.

Midnight Commander does that chore if you want to use command line. It's
worked for ages. Ric

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