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Old 07-29-2005, 05:09 PM
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Sparse image grows beyond actual data?

I have been using SuperDuper to backup to sparse images created with Disk Utility to potentially expand to the full size of the original volume. For my needs, I like this approach better than Retrospect.

I recently noticed that the sparse image continually expands with each backup to far beyond the actual data written into it. Aparently the new/changed files is written and then the old files are deleted but the disk image does not release the empty space.

Is there a way to retrieve the disk space being retained without data by the sparseimage?

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Old 07-29-2005, 05:15 PM
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You can potentially recover unused space in the image using hdiutil and the "compact" option. You have to do this in the Terminal.

The syntax would be:

hdiutil compact image-file

So, if your image is called "My Happy Image.sparseimage" and it's stored on your desktop, you'd use:

hdiutil compact ~/Desktop/My\ Happy\ Image.sparseimage

(the backslashes escape the spaces, the "~" means "My Home Folder").

You can also just type:

hdiutil compact

(include a space at the end)

and then drag the image file into the Terminal -- OSX will automatically put the path in place for you.
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Old 07-29-2005, 05:46 PM
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Thanks Dave,

That worked very well.
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Great: glad to hear it!
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Sparse problem too

I'm having the same troubles with sparse image sizes and after following your instructions to compact I get an error in Terminal saying, "hdiutil:compact failed - internal error".

I'm not a wizbang with Terminal. Any ideas?

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Wayne
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Old 09-27-2005, 02:27 PM
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Sounds like it doesn't want to compact, Wayne... the image frameworks can be buggy, unfortunately, and you might have hit one of the situations where those bugs are exposed.

Are you certain you gave it a good "path" when you specified the location of the image?
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