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Repartition using networked disk images
Authored by: Makosuke on Mar 12, '04 04:56:20PM

There's actually a second useful tip in here; backing up to a networked volume with CCC. CCC can't clone directly to a mounted network volume, and oddly enough it won't even let you attempt a clone operation (to create a disk image) if there isn't a second "physical" drive mounted--network mounts don't count, apparently, even though writing a disk image on one should work just fine.

But, apparently, by creating a 2nd disk image on the target network volume and mounting that, it'll work. Nice solution for backups for people who only have one internal drive/partition, but access to a network.

Also, aside from the fact that SMB networking being jacked up is a known fact, there seems to be some serious hidden issues with Sparse Images in 10.3 (sad, since they've got some very useful features).

Among them: Create a sparse image, copy some files to it, then restart without "ejecting" it. Boom--the files on the image are corrupt. I've also run into once case of the entire image being rendered unreadable, when the image was encrypted.

There are serious, serious bugs there, that I hope Apple fixes in 10.3.3, and I expect they're part of the cause of the crashes the author of this hint mentioned.



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