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squashfs-tools-4.6.1

tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems

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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 minimise 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 constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/squashfs-tools
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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