create_compressed_fs 1 create_compressed_fs, extract_compressed_fs convert and extract a filesystem to/from a cloop volume create_compressed_fs image blocksize > image.cloop_compressed extract_compressed_fs filename create_compressed_fs compresses a filesystem image to a compressed image suitable for mounting with the cloop driver. blocksize must be a multiple of 512 bytes. Make sure you have enough swap to hold the entire compressed image in virtual memory! Use "-" as filename to read data from stdin, as in: mkisofs -r datadir | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > datadir.iso.compressed You have to pass the options to the cloop module on loading: insmod cloop.o file=/path/to/compressed/image mount -o ro -t whatever /dev/cloop /mnt/compressed /usr/share/doc/cloop-utils/*, /usr/share/doc/cloop-src/* This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch (blade@debian.org) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.