[Cialug] Linux equivalent to OS X hdiutil

[David W. Body]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>wrote:

>
> 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
>

Maybe "sparse, compressed, read-write" isn't the correct description because
I only want to write it once, but hdiutil will create a sparse, compressed
disk image from a directory as follows:

  hdiutil create -srcfolder my_directory -format UDZO my-diskimage.dmg

--David
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