Alternatives to ratarmount
A command-line tool that mounts TAR, ZIP, RAR and compressed archives as a read-only filesystem. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ratarmount
A command-line tool that mounts TAR, ZIP, RAR and compressed archives as a read-only filesystem.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ratarmount.
archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders.
archivemount also mounts archives through FUSE using libarchive formats, and mounted files are usable by any program, but it is built from source and develops slowly.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
pixz
A parallel, indexing xz compressor that allows random access into compressed tar.xz archives.
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.
Squashfs-tools
Command-line tools for creating and extracting compressed, read-only SquashFS filesystem images.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
