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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 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.

OPTIONS

       -da[ta-queue] size
           Set data queue to size Mbytes. Default 256 Mbytes.

       -d[est] pathname
           unsquash to pathname, default "squashfs-root".

       -e[f] extract file
           list of directories or files to extract. One per line.

       -f[orce]
           if file already exists then overwrite.

       -fr[ag-queue] size
           Set fagment queue to size Mbytes. Default 256 Mbytes.

       -i[nfo]
           print files as they are unsquashed.

       -li[nfo]
           print files as they are unsquashed with file attributes (like ls -l
           output).

       -ll[s]
           list filesystem with file attributes (like ls -l output), but don’t
           unsquash.

       -l[s]
           list filesystem, but don’t unsquash.

       -n[o-progress]
           don’t display the progress bar.

       -p[rocessors] number
           use number processors. By default will  use  number  of  processors
           available.

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

       -s[tat]
           display filesystem superblock information.

       -v[ersion]
           print version, licence and copyright information.

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
       <plougher@users.sourceforge.net>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).