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Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2017 23:45:06 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat

Why do I keep forgetting that TAR is a file system albeit a crude one?

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1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2017 23:48:03 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat
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  I could just use a USB device in lieu of a tape if it is of sufficient capacity. Heck, even an SDXC chip could be a quick stand-in.
  
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  1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2017 23:48:35 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat
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    My home directory isn't that big. This might let me do a wipe/install pair to move from Xubuntu 16.04 to Xubuntu 17.10 perhaps.
    
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2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 00:02:30 EDT Bob Jonkman
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  Can you mount a .tar file?
  
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  1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 00:14:37 EDT lnxw48a1
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    @bobjonkman @alpacaherder In a sense, you're mounting archives whenever you recurse into them without extracting (e.g., in Ark or Dolphin or Krusader or Thunar or another file / archive manager).
    
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    1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 00:31:07 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat
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      @lnxw48a1 @bobjonkman Just using flash media on lieu of the original tapes tar was written for. tar cvnSWpf /dev/sdb ~
      
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    2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 11:33:19 EDT Bob Jonkman
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      And that functionality (mounting a .tar file) exists in the package 'archivemount' https://www.linux.com/news/mounting-archives-fuse-and-archivemount
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      Mounting archives with FUSE and archivemount
      
      from Linux.com | The source for Linux information
      
      The archivemount FUSE filesystem lets you mount a possibly compressed tarball as a filesystem. Because FUSE exposes its filesystems through the Linux kernel, you can use any application to load and save files directly into such mounted archives. This lets you use your favourite text editor, image viewer, or music player on files that are still inside an archive file. Going one step further, because archivemount also supports write access for some archive formats, you can edit a text file directly from inside an archive too.
  2. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 00:28:33 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat
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    @bobjonkman Yep. That's what the tar command is for. The file is but a virtual representation of a tape in a drive, really.
    
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