Re: Sparse bundle thinks it's out of space.
Michael <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.macosx.general |
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>>> 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.