Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 01:35:47 JST niconiconi

   #TIL You can use GRUB's filesystem drivers in userspace, it's a huge collection of drivers without root!!!"The program grub-mount performs a read-only mount of any file system or file system image that GRUB understands, using GRUB’s file system drivers via FUSE. (It is only available if FUSE development files were present when GRUB was built.) This has a number of uses: [...]"

   • 翠星石 likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 01:38:28 JST 翠星石

     in reply to
     @niconiconi >Gentoo doesn't enable grub-mount by default.
     Of course.
     
     Good to see that there's decent quality filesystem drivers from GNU available in GNU/Linux-libre.
     
     Now, only to make such drivers r/w and port them to Hurd.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 01:50:23 JST 翠星石

     in reply to

     • 翠星石
     @niconiconi It's really awesome how GNU has already solved the problem of viewing and extracting files from iso's and squashfs filesystems etc, without needing to find and install bad FUSE drivers and impossible to remember mount flags.
     
     Thank you very much for that.