Mount a tar file as a virtual file system

[Peng Yu]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I try to view a file in an zip file in mc (press 3 on the highlighted
file in the zip file). But it says "Cannot execute commands on
non-local filesystems". Do you know how it works?

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Regards,
Peng