ARCHFS(4) ARCHFS(4)
NAME
archfs - mount an archive format filesystem
SYNOPSIS
archfs [ -s ] [ -m mountpoint ] archfile [ prefix ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Archfs mounts the file archfile in archive format on the
given mountpoint directory. The mount is read only. Typi-
cally the archive file will have been created by mkfs or
create. Any further names after the archive file name are
treated as prefixes and only files in the archive whose path
names begin with one of these prefixes are actually shown
under the mount point.
OPTIONS
-m mountpoint
specifies the actual mount point for the archive.
The default is /mnt.
-s indicates that the rest of the archive can be
skipped once a file is found in the archive which
does not start with any of the given prefixes.
This is useful when an archive is known to contain
a description of it's contents in the form of a
series of header files at the beginning of the
archive and all we wish to show under the mount
point are the header files.
SOURCE
/appl/cmd/install/archfs.b
SEE ALSO
mkfs(8), create(8)
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