Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   9211 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

UNSQUASHFS(1)		uncompress squashfs filesystems		 UNSQUASHFS(1)

NAME
       mksquashfs - tool to uncompress squashfs filesystems

SYNOPSIS
       unsquashfs [OPTIONS] FILESYSTEM [directories or files to extract]

DESCRIPTION
       Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses
       zlib compression to compress both files, inodes and directories. Inodes
       in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimize data
       overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum  of
       64K.

       Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival
       use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file	may  be	 used),	 and  in  con‐
       strained	 block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low
       overhead is needed.

OPTIONS
       -v, -version
	   print version, licence and copyright information.

       -d PATHNAME, -dest PATHNAME
	   unsquash to PATHNAME, default "squashfs-root".

       -n, -no-progress
	   don't display the progress bar.

       -no, -no-xattrs
	   don't extract xattrs in file system.

       -x, -xattrs
	   extract xattrs in file system (default).

       -p NUMBER, -processors NUMBER
	   use NUMBER processors. By default will  use	number	of  processors
	   available.

       -i, -info
	   print files as they are unsquashed.

       -li, -linfo
	   print files as they are unsquashed with file attributes (like ls -l
	   output).

       -l, -ls
	   list filesystem, but don't unsquash.

       -ll, -lls
	   list filesystem with file attributes (like ls -l output), but don't
	   unsquash.

       -f, -force
	   if file already exists then overwrite.

       -s, -stat
	   display filesystem superblock information.

       -e EXTRACT_FILE, -ef EXTRACT_FILE
	   list of directories or files to extract. One per line.

       -da SIZE, -data-queue SIZE
	   Set data queue to SIZE Mbytes. Default 256 Mbytes.

       -fr SIZE, -frag-queue SIZE
	   Set fragment queue to SIZE Mbytes. Default 256 Mbytes.

       -r, -regex
	   treat  extract  names  as POSIX regular expressions rather than use
	   the default shell wildcard expansion (globbing).

   Decompressors available
       gzip

       lzo

       xz

SEE ALSO
       mksquashfs(1)

HOMEPAGE
       More information about unsquashfs and the squashfs  filesystem  can  be
       found at <http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR
       squashfs was written by Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>.

       This  manual  page  was	written	 by  Daniel  Baumann <mail@daniel-bau‐
       mann.ch>.

4.2				  2012-06-30			 UNSQUASHFS(1)

Vote for polarhome