SQUASHFS-MOUNT(1)

💖 SQUASHFS-MOUNT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for squashfs-mount, a little User Commands situation, and honestly? she's giving main character energy. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

squashfs-mount — a setuid utility instead of FUSE for mounting squashfs files 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

squashfs-mount <image>:<mountpoint> [<image>:<mountpoint>]...  -- <command> [args...]

like. the whole vibe is pairs of image and mountpoint, then a --, then whatever command you wanna run. periodt. 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this page documents squashfs-mount briefly, but let me tell you what she actually is.

squashfs-mount is a small setuid utility for mounting squashfs files. that's it, that's the girl. 👑

the way it works is lowkey iconic: it effectively runs

mount -n -o loop,nosuid,nodev,ro -t squashfs [image] [mountpoint]

inside a mount namespace, and then it executes the command you gave it as the invoking user. so it's not you doing the mounting, it's her doing the mounting, and then she hands the vibe back to you to actually run your stuff. no cap. ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

a summary of options is included below, and yes there's only two, she's minimal like that 🧚

• -h — prints a short usage information. just a lil "here's how you use me" moment 🫶
• -v — prints the version of the program. so you know which era of her you're dealing with ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

squashfs-mount was written by Ben Cumming, Simon Pintarelli and Harmen Stoppels at the CSCS (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico). absolute legends, all three of them, fr fr. 💜

this manual page was written by Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay, generous queen 🌈

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bestie reminder: this is a setuid utility. she does privileged mounting so you don't have to. treat her with respect 💖

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and that's the whole page!! squashfs-mount 1.1.0, from August 2024 — iykyk 😭🎀 go mount something, you got this ✨🦋