Re: Sparse bundle thinks it's out of space.

Michael <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>> First question: is there any way to make a sparse image drive reuse space in the bands when they are freed up?
>>> 
>>> Second question: is there any way to compact a sparse image when the band size used is bigger than normal?
>> 
>> Have your tried with a non-hax0red sparse bundle using the default 8MB band size?
> 
> Sure. Works. Will compact. But slow. Very slow.
> 
> And this is a normal, supported HDI image bundle, made by the normal Apple tools.

To clarify: with the default 8 MB band size, the same behavior of assuming that the space on the image is the same as the space on the host drive, and as far as I can tell not reusing the band space when a file is deleted off the image drive.
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