avoiding loopback for squashfs

Posted Feb 1, 2007 7:31 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (guest, #7591)
In reply to: avoiding loopback for squashfs by pjm
Parent article: Embedded Linux: Using Compressed File Systems

Yes, the squashfs filesystem can be created directly on a block device, for example with:

mksquashfs /tmp/busybox /dev/hda5