Questions tagged [sparseimage]
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How can I create a scenario to test zerofree?
What I am doing
I am studying the filesystem image sparse tool: zerofree.
I imagine the steps to create the scenario should be that:
create a file system image.
use some way to fill it.
clear it, but ...
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What is LUKS and LVM2 PV in Gnome-Disk?
After a standard installation of Linux Mint Debian Edition 4, this is how the hard drive is partitioned according to gnome-disk:
Ext4 is the standard file system for current Linux systems AFAIK. But ...
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How to create sparse, bootable Linux backup images?
I've set up a new Linux workstation and would like to create a backup image in order to save time in case something breaks. This is the situation:
Workstation: 512 GB SSD, 12 GB used, ext4 file ...
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virt-sparsify doesn't reduce image size
I am trying to reduce image size using dd conv=sparse, but no matter what I do, the image size is still huge.
I have a CentOS image which is around 136GB. The main reason it being so big is that it ...
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Is it safe to cancel hdiutil compact?
A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on Mac OS X that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as stored in it (quoth Wikipedia). If a sparse ...
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Disable .DS_Store, Spotlight and other metadata on Mac disk image
I store my files (plaintext) on an encrypted Sparse Bundle Disk Image and backup this image (the ciphertext) with Rsync to another server. Sparse Bundle Disk Images create 8 MiB files ("bands") to ...
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sparse file moving/copying over NFS
I created a sparse file with
truncate -s 4T image.img
on an ext4 file system which I mount over NFS. The following test shows that the system has trouble with the recognition of sparse files: both
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Change sparse attribute from an .iso file on Windows 8.1
I have few very large .iso files in my computer altogether about 1TB. All of them are sparse files and i want to remove the sparse flag/attribute from them, is there a way how to do it? Maybe some ...
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can sparsebundles be locked to make them read-only?
With sparseimage files, I can set the Locked attribute in 'Get Info' to prevent modifying its content. Doing so with sparsebundles has no effect it seems.
At the moment I'm storing my sparsebundle ...
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Is it possible to open encrypted sparseimage files from MacOS X on Windows?
Windows programs MacDrive Pro and TransMac are capable to open MacOS X .sparseimage files.
Does it include encrypted sparseimage files ?
Are there other programs to open such files ?
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How to make an encrypted sparseimage larger on osx
I have an encrypted volume on OSX Lion.
How do I make it larger?
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How can I know which blocks/sectors were last written to on an NTFS volume?
Is there a tool that would enable me to identify which blocks of data were last (most recently) written to an NTFS volume?
Perhaps the NTFS volume's "$Journal" file might have information that can be ...
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ext2explore for windows doesn't read ext3/4 sparse files what does?
I have some sparse files that I want to read/copy to windows but I can't find a FS reader that works any suggestions?
EDIT: to clarify the sparse files are living on an ext3 partition it's this ...
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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?