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NAME
archivemount — mount an archive for access as a filesystem
SYNOPSIS
archivemount [ -hVdf ] [
-o
option
[
,
option
]… ]…
archive
mountpoint
DESCRIPTION
Mounts, through fuse (8), a file tree contained in archive on directory mountpoint . umount and fusermount -u can undo this mapping.
EXAMPLES
$ ls
files.tar.gz mnt/
$ tar -tf
files.tar.gz
file1 file2
$ archivemount
files.tar.gz mnt
$ ls mnt
file1 file2
$ echo zupa >
mnt/file3
$ rm
mnt/file1
$ umount
mnt
$ ls
files.tar.gz files.tar.gz.orig mnt/
$ tar -tf
files.tar.gz
file2 file3
$ tar -tf
voreutils.tar.gz
src/ src/…
man/ man/aliases man/basename.1
README.md
$ archivemount -o subtree
=
man voreutils.tar.gz
mnt
$ ls
mnt
aliases basename.1
OPTIONS
See fuse (8) for a complete list of the baseline FUSE options supported. The following options are handled specially by archivemount :
-h , --help
Write usage and all available options to standard error stream, then exit.
-V , --version
Write version of archivemount , libarchive, and FUSE to the standard output stream, then exit.
-r
,
-o ro
,
-o
readonly
: Disable writes entirely.
-o password
Prompt for archive passphrase.
-o nobackup
When saving writes, the original archive is moved to " archive .orig ". This flag removes that file afterward.
-o nosave
Allow writes in memory, but don’t actually write them out on unmount.
-o subtree = regex
Hide files not matching regex , and on those that do match, remove the matched prefix (cf. second example above). regex is a basic regular expression that behaves as-if prepended with the equivalent of " ^.? ". Implies -r .
-o formatraw
archive is actually a compressed file, made available under mounpoint/saved-filename or mounpoint/data . Implies -r .
BUGS
Writing archives, probably.
ARCHIVE FORMATS
See libarchive (3) for a definitive list, but all kinds of tar /ustar/ pax / cpio archives, 7-Zip, ISO9660, ar , and RAR/Zip may be read. These may be compressed with gzip (1), xz (1), zstd (1), &c. and are processed transparently. The same applies for writing (except you can’t write RARs).
SEE ALSO
fusermount (1), libarchive (3), regex (7), fuse (8), umount (8) archivemount-ng 1b-1 May 14, 2025 ARCHIVEMOUNT (1)