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How to unpack or mount Archlinux sfs files?

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Bengt T

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Dec 22, 2011, 5:48:37 AM12/22/11
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The Archlinux iso image contains "xxx-image.fs.sfs"-files which I wish
to access.

I have "squashfs" support in my kernel according to /proc/filesystems.

Mounting ("mount -o loop xxx-image.fs.sfs /mnt/arch") does not work.

My assumption is that I need to unpack the sfs files but can not find
out how. Any suggestion on how to proceed?

Jasen Betts

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Dec 23, 2011, 9:35:11 PM12/23/11
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perhaps you need to specify the filesystem type when you try to mount
it.

mount -o loop xxx-image.fs.sfs /mnt/arch -t squashfs


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Bengt T

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Dec 26, 2011, 3:23:14 AM12/26/11
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On 24 Dec, 03:35, Jasen Betts <ja...@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
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Tried to mount according as suggested without success. dmesg command
reports:
"SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression. This is not
supported".

Jasen Betts

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Dec 27, 2011, 4:35:22 AM12/27/11
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On 2011-12-26, Bengt T <bengt_t...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression. This is not
> supported".

Error messages are good, try googling it.

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