Make_RootFS.md

Convert .tar.xz to .tar.gz

First it will be better if you have a Linux environment and change user to root. Always copy the .tar.xz file to /home/user folder to avoid any hard link conflicts. Let the file name as distro.tar.xz and file path /mnt/c/MyFiles. It is important to use --hard-dereference option with tar command with sudo.

cp /mnt/c/MyFiles/distro.tar.xz ~
cd ~
mkdir /tmp
tar -xf distro.tar.xz -C tmp/
cd tmp/
tar -czf ../distro.tar.gz --hard-dereference *
cd ~
mv distro.tar.gz /mnt/c/MyFiles/
rm -rf tmp/

Convert SquashFS to .tar.gz

Let the file name as distro.squashfs (or in some cases distro.SFS) and file path /mnt/c/MyFiles. Here also it will be better if you copy the file in an Linux environment and change user to root.

cp /mnt/c/MyFiles/distro.squashfs ~
cd ~
unsquashfs -d tmp distro.squashfs
cd tmp
tar -czf ../distro.tar.gz --hard-dereference *
cd ~
mv distro.tar.gz /mnt/c/MyFiles/
rm -rf tmp/