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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:56:32 +0200
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Mount bzip2 disk image
Message-ID:  <d29db23f-d20a-7e03-1498-4ff02344243d@netfence.it>

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Hello.

I've got a bzip2-compressed quite big HD image. Is there a way to mount 
it (read-only) without uncompressing it first? I don't care about 
performance as I only need to recover a single file.
Uncompressing it would probably take days, provided enough space is 
available (which I'm not sure is the case).

The idea would be:
_ mdconfig -a -f xxx.img.bz2
_ .... use something over /dev/md0 to get /dev/xxx
_ mount /dev/xxxp4 /mnt/tmp.

Does such a thing exist?

  bye & Thanks
	av.



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