[Cialug] Linux equivalent to OS X hdiutil

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Tom Pohl wrote:

> I'd bet TrueCrypt will give you what you're looking for with the added
> benefit of encryption :)
>
> http://www.truecrypt.org/


Have they added support for sparse images on non-NTFS parent file  
systems? Last I saw you had to be running Windows to use a sparse disk  
image, and had to be willing to reveal your sector usage bitmap in  
order to do that.

Regardless, compressed and read-write is a tall order on any OS  
(hdiutil doesn't do it either) -- there are several choices for  
building disk images on linux, several of which can be used while  
compressed, but the only thing I've ever heard of that allows read- 
write access to a compressed store is some of the FUSE frontends ZIP  
files and the like.

	Zach