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Recover/repair a corrupt encrypted sparse image
Authored by: gogool on Jul 28, '07 07:33:16AM

Great Hint. I found a way to recover my corrupt disk image even without a working backup.

I just created a dummy sparseimage, using the same password and size I used to create the orginal image.

Instead of the backup image i used the dummy to copy the header info from and my orginal image was back again.

But there is an other part of the hint not working for me. I'm not able to create a sparseimage using the V2 format (header at the beginning of the file). All disk images I create still use the dangerous V1 format. I have tried it with the "Disk Utility"-Application and with the hdiutil-command:

hdiutil create -size 1g -encryption -type SPARSE -fs HFS+J newimage

So, how do I create a new sparseimage on OS X 10.4.10 that uses the new more secure format? Is there an option for the hdiutil-command?



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