NOM
unsquashfs - Decompress and extract a Squash file system
SYNOPSIS
unsquashfs [-v[ersion]]
unsquashfs [-l[s] list filesystem only]
unsquashfs filesystem to_extract [options] [-i[nfo]] [-d[est] target] [-f[force] ]
DESCRIPTION
A squashfs is a compressed read-only file system. Use the
unsquashfs
program to decompress and extract a Squash file system without mounting it.
unsquashfs
is able to extract the entire file system or a specific file or directory.
unsquashfs
only supports squashfs 3.0 file systems at the moment.
OPTIONS
-v[ersion]
print version, licence and copyright message.
-i[nfo]
print files as they are unsquashed.
-l[s]
list filesystem only, doesn't decompress anything.
-d[est] pathname
decompress to
pathname. This default to
squashfs-root.
-f[orce]
if file already exists then overwrite.
AUTHORS
Squashfs was written by
Phillip Lougher
<plougher@users.sourceforge.net>, in Chepstow, Wales, UK. If you like the program, or have any problems, then please email me, as it's nice to get feedback !
This manual page was written by Arnaud Fontaine
<arnaud@andesi.org>
for the
Debian(TM)
system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU
General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the
GNU
General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2006 Arnaud Fontaine