[MacTUG] Bug in 10.3.9 when making asr disk images

[Marlon A. Griffith]

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) and Disk Util use the command line tool 
hdiutil to create asr disk images. They are used in netbooting to 
rebuild client machines.


Bug:
In 10.3.9, this hdiutil has a bug which prevents it from asr(ing) a 
disk volume of more than 8 GBs. You will see the following error 
message, "hdiutil convert failed - image/device is too large." I ran 
into this bug when backing up my servers. CCC will stop and leave a 
perfectly good diskImage.sparseimage file behind. However, not the 
asr version of the volume.


Solution:
hdiutil works find on previous version of 10.3. Therefore, I created 
a small partition which runs a basic 10.3.8 with CCC and used that to 
produce the asr disk images. It worked!

P.S. I found this solution on MacOsXHints:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/printthread.php?t=38035


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Make it a great day!
Marlon A. Griffith
Architecture Computing and Media
School of Architecture
University of Waterloo
519-885-1211 x7651
m3griffi at architecture.uwaterloo.ca
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