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06-09-2007, 01:08 PM

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Smart Update to Sparse Image takes up far more space than source

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Posted By harvardslacker

Running hdiutil compact during copy script

I noticed that the 'compact' command failed whenever the disk image was mounted, so I made a shell script that unmounts the image, compacts it, and then remounts it. This seemed to work fine, but...

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06-09-2007, 10:11 AM

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Smart Update to Sparse Image takes up far more space than source

Views: 15,195

Posted By harvardslacker

Thanks to the 'related threads' feature, I found...

Thanks to the 'related threads' feature, I found another thread in which someone mentioned hdiutil's 'compact' function, which reclaimed 75GB from the sparse image. I will try adding a shell script...

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06-09-2007, 10:02 AM

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Smart Update to Sparse Image takes up far more space than source

Views: 15,195

Posted By harvardslacker

Smart Update to Sparse Image takes up far more space than source

I have been backing up my 500GB source drive with about 250GB of data on it to a spare disk image on a 250GB destination drive. Because I now have enough data that it won't all fit (although this...

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