Alternatives to archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as archivemount.
ratarmount
A command-line tool that mounts TAR, ZIP, RAR and compressed archives as a read-only filesystem.
ratarmount also mounts archives as a FUSE filesystem, adds an index for quickly reopening large archives and an AppImage build, but its mounts are read-only.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.
Ark
KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.
Squashfs-tools
Command-line tools for creating and extracting compressed, read-only SquashFS filesystem images.
