This is for those who dual-boot a frugal MX and various versions of Windows. The Windows versions of 7z and 7zFM can open and access linuxfs (in squashfs format), the root persistence file rootfs (ext format, probably homefs works as well though I have not tested this) and also initrd.gz. The latter needs two steps: first unpack initrd.gz into initrd and then feed initrd (cpio format) into 7z. (And 7z and 7zFM are also very useful for ISO and VDI/VHD work as I have just found out.)
So if you just want a quick peek into a file or check something, no need to boot into MX. Writing to these files is not possible from Windows: 7z doesn't support these formats for writing as the following excerpt from the 7z website shows.
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Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.