Using archivemount (with examples)

Mounting an archive to a specific mountpoint

To mount an archive to a specific mountpoint using the archivemount command, you need to provide the path to the archive file and the desired mount point. The archivemount command will then mount the archive so that its contents are accessible as a filesystem.

Here is an example of how to use this command:

archivemount path/to/archive path/to/mount_point

• Motivation: Mounting an archive to a specific mountpoint allows you to access the files within the archive as if they were regular files on your file system. This can be useful when you want to browse or manipulate the contents of an archive without having to extract it first.

• Explanation:

  • path/to/archive: This argument specifies the path to the archive file that you want to mount.
  • path/to/mount_point: This argument specifies the desired mount point where the archive will be mounted.

• Example output: Suppose you have an archive file located at /home/user/archive.zip and you want to mount it to the mount point /mnt/archive. You can achieve this by running the following command:

archivemount /home/user/archive.zip /mnt/archive

Upon successful execution, you will be able to access the contents of the archive.zip file as a regular file system under the /mnt/archive mount point.