sqfstar

linux

Create a squashfs filesystem from a `.tar` archive.

Examples (5)

Create a squashfs filesystem (compressed using `gzip` by default) from an uncompressed `.tar` archive

sqfstar < archive.tar filesystem.squashfs

Create a squashfs filesystem from a `.tar` archive compressed with `gzip`, and [comp]ress the filesystem using a specific algorithm

zcat archive.tar.gz | sqfstar -comp gzip|lzo|lz4|xz|zstd|lzma filesystem.squashfs

Create a squashfs filesystem from a `.tar` archive compressed with `xz`, excluding some of the files

xzcat archive.tar.xz | sqfstar filesystem.squashfs file1 file2 ...

Create a squashfs filesystem from a `.tar` archive compressed with `zstd`, excluding files ending with `.gz`

zstdcat archive.tar.zst | sqfstar filesystem.squashfs "*.gz"

Create a squashfs filesystem from a `.tar` archive compressed with `lz4`, excluding files matching a `regex`

lz4cat archive.tar.lz4 | sqfstar filesystem.squashfs -regex "regex"