I need to extract an archive that contains files whose names are longer than 256 characters. Every common filesystem I have tried (ntfs, ext3, ext4) has a limitation on filename size at 255 or 256 bytes. Is there a filesystem I can easily use in a Debian system (mkfs, mount, etc) that helps me get around this limitation?
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What filesystem was this archive created on/from? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jun 7 '13 at 0:34
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@IgnacioVazquez-Abrams I don't know. It's an obfuscated jar that I'd like to analyze. – Suchipi Jun 7 '13 at 1:01
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3You could write a script in a language that supports zip files directly (e.g. Python) to extract the files with a different name. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jun 7 '13 at 1:17
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1en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits – Bratchley Jun 7 '13 at 3:09
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Looking at this comparison of filesystems, it looks like the only one shipped with Debian that supports filenames longer than 256 characters is the (slightly notorious) reiserfs.
You can create and mount a new 100MB filesystem without needing to use a separate device like this:
# apt-get install reiserfsprogs
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/username/reiser-filesystem bs=1048576 count=100
# mkfs.reiserfs -f /home/username/reiser-filesystem
# mount -o loop /home/username/reiser-filesystem /mnt
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Awesome; I tried this earlier but got stuck trying to
mount -t reiserfs. This works. Thanks! – Suchipi Jun 8 '13 at 0:49
