In other words, libarchive may only support proper archives, but from
a user's perspective, .bz2 is an archive format, too.
Wikipedia's article, for instance, differentiates between Archiving
only, Compression only, and Archiving and compression formats, but
they're all under the umbrella of
So an archive with a single file in it should be handled with an
entirely different tool than an archive with multiple files in it?
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Archive Mounter cannot mount single-file archives like .bz2
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Could you please explain a bit more on this? Why the current state,
which is opening the archive, is not good enough?
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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Archive Mounter cannot mount single-file archives like .bz2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435579
I'm not sure what you mean by opening the archive. Archive Mounter
does not show up in the context menu for these files, and if you try to
make it work through Open with Other Application, it does nothing, as
far as I can tell.
Opening a .tar.bz2 immediately creates a mount point on the desktop.
Opening a .tar.bz2 immediately creates a mount point on the desktop.
Opening a .bz2 through the custom command menu does nothing.
And this makes absolute sense. TAR stands for Tape ARchive. In this
case, the archive is then compressed using bzip. Bzip2 is a compression
algorithm.
The Archive
It should be able to mount arbitrary compressed files. That's why I
filed this bug.
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Archive Mounter cannot mount single-file archives like .bz2
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Archives are mountable because they represent a (albeit ill-defined)
file system: they have numerous files, often directory structures,
sometimes even volumes in the case of ISOs, etc. Compressed files are
just that: files that have been compressed. They aren't file systems by
any stretch. They're
