Tagged Questions

The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

1
vote
0answers
39 views

Determine exact size of DMG to hold data

Let's say that I have three files with the following sizes: FileA: 15468bytes FileB: 3874235bytes FileC: 10452326bytes and I want to create a UDIF, GPTSPUD, HFS+ DMG with hdiutil which will ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views

Converting .iso to .img in Mac OS X 10.6

I'm trying to convert an .iso file (Ubuntu disc image) to a .img file. I run a command like so: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ubuntu.img ubuntu-11.04-server-amd64.iso But no matter what, I get ...
1
vote
1answer
262 views

Shrink a .sparseimage

I have a .sparseimage that occupies 90GB of space on my hard drive despite only having 30GB of files in it. How can I reclaim the empty space used by the .sparseimage and compact the file?
1
vote
1answer
524 views

hdiutil on Linux

Anyone know of a Linux port of the Mac OS tool hdiutil (http://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/hdiutil/)?
4
votes
4answers
377 views

Bypass a licence agreement when mounting a DMG on the command line

I'm automating my Mac installation using puppet. As a part of it I need to install several programs that come in a .dmg format. I use the following to mount them: sudo /usr/bin/hdiutil mount -plist ...
2
votes
7answers
11k views

I'm unable to mount a DMG, getting a “no mountable filesystems” error

I downloaded a DMG of some commercial Mac software (CSSEdit) but I found that the DMG wouldn't mount. I tried another image from the same company, and then a number of images I had laying around from ...