sqfstar

Create a squashfs filesystem from a tar archive.

Create a squashfs filesystem (compressed using gzip by default) from an uncompressed tar archive

$ sqfstar [filesystem.squashfs] < [archive.tar]

Create a squashfs filesystem from a tar archive compressed with gzip, and [comp]ress the filesystem using a specific algorithm

$ zcat [archive.tar.gz] | sqfstar -comp [gzip|lzo|lz4|xz|zstd|lzma] [filesystem.squashfs]

Create a squashfs filesystem from a tar archive compressed with xz, excluding some of the files

$ xzcat [archive.tar.xz] | sqfstar [filesystem.squashfs] [file1 file2 ...]

Create a squashfs filesystem from a tar archive compressed with zstd, excluding files ending with .gz

$ zstdcat [archive.tar.zst] | sqfstar [filesystem.squashfs] "[*.gz]"

Create a squashfs filesystem from a tar archive compressed with lz4, excluding files matching a regular expression

$ lz4cat [archive.tar.lz4] | sqfstar [filesystem.squashfs] -regex "[regular_expression]"