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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: rspeed on Mar 22, '06 09:33:45PM

WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!

There is a MUCH better way to accomplish this! Apple includes a command-line application for disk image manipulation called hdiutil. It works perfectly even with encrypted images. You don't need any extra space to build a new image, the disk image doesn't need to be mounted and the process is MUCH faster. The command for resizing is something like this:

hdiutil resize 40g /Users/foobar.sparseimage

The "40g" is the new maximum size. You can set it to anything larger than the current used space, or "max" to make it as big as possible.

Oof...



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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: kren2000 on May 12, '06 09:27:18AM
The grammar of the hdiutil command is slightly different from what was given above. It should be:
hdiutil resize -size 200g MyFile.sparseimage 

This works for expanding the capacity of regular sparseimages as well. Who knows why this isn't built into DiskUtility?

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