Create index file only, Do not mount.

[cheebusjeebus]

I use ratarmount for save many indexs of tarballs I own. All I need is the SQLite3 database file, No need to mount the archive too.

Please could you add a option like --no-mount for this purpouse?

[iwconfig]

Heh! I came here to request the exact same feature.

I have a lot of file-based split archives (rather than byte-based) stored on a remote server I access with rclone. My theory is that mounting these will go significantly faster with a ready made index file i can create before uploading the archives to the remote. But I don't yet have enough experience with ratarmount to know if my theory is correct.

Please mxmlkn, perhaps you can confirm this? Thank you!

[mxmlnkn]

Wow, three votes in one day for this feature request. I hacked something simple together on the create-index branch, which can be installed with:

python3 -m pip install --user --force-reinstall \
    'git+https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount.git@create-index#egginfo=ratarmountcore&subdirectory=core' \
    'git+https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount.git@create-index#egginfo=ratarmount'

Is this sufficient?

[iwconfig]

Yes! Awesome! Works great on my end. Thank you very much @mxmlnkn!

[cheebusjeebus]

@mxmlnkn, Yes your update works great for me too. Thank you kind sir. :)