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Shrinking Sparse Images
I use a sparse image to back up and recently noticed that the file size has been growing far beyond the size of the data on the disk image. The sparse image had max size of 7 GB and contained only 4.95 GB of data, but the file size was 6.45 GB!
That seemed unreasonable, so I decided to look into shrinking it. Reading from here, http://www.hmug.org/man/1/hdiutil.html I found the hdiutil command "compact", which can be used in the terminal as follows: Code:
hdiutil compact imagename.sparseimage Quote:
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