From 8f6cac0f6cf931eb08243447d48a71425e5ec3d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Oberhollenzer Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 01:01:43 +0100 Subject: Add a --root-becomes option to tar2sqfs and sqfs2tar Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer --- doc/tar2sqfs.1 | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/tar2sqfs.1') diff --git a/doc/tar2sqfs.1 b/doc/tar2sqfs.1 index c2c7f72..70f2006 100644 --- a/doc/tar2sqfs.1 +++ b/doc/tar2sqfs.1 @@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ SquashFS. .PP Possible options: .TP +\fB\-\-root\-becomes\fR, \fB\-r\fR +If set, only pack entries that are underneath the specified directory and the +prefix is stripped. The meta data for the directory itself is copied to the +root inode, i.e. the ownership, permissions, extended attributes (unless +\f\-\-no\-xattr\R is set), and modification time +(unless \fB\-\-no\-keep\-time\fR is set). + +If this option is not set, tar2sqfs implicitly treats \fB./\fR or absolute +paths this way, i.e. if the archive contains an entry for \fB./\fR, it becomes +the root node and the prefix is stripped from all paths (and similar for +absolute paths and \fB/\fR). +.TP \fB\-\-compressor\fR, \fB\-c\fR Select the compressor to use. Run \fBtar2sqfs \-\-help\fR to get a list of all available compressors -- cgit v1.2.3