On Dec 22, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Rick Gordon wrote: > How do you copy to a sparse image so that the image will be > expanded as required? > > I tried creating a small sparse image using Disk Utility, mounting > it, and then running a shell script that successively makes > directories on the mounted image, and then copying data to it. > > #! /bin/sh > cd /Applications > mkdir /Volumes/PSCS3_Installation/Applications > sudo cp -R -pv <file_1> ... <file_n> /Volumes/PSCS3_Installation/ > Applications/ > cd /Applications/Utilities > mkdir /Volumes/PSCS3_Installation/Applications/Utilities > sudo cp -R -pv <file_1> ... <file_n> /Volumes/PSCS3_Installation/ > Applications/Utilities/ > ... etc. ... > > But I soon get a "No space left on device" error. What should I be > doing to avoid this? I've never tried copying to a sparseimage from Terminal, but from the Finder it expands as needed. Perhaps it won't expand from Terminal... Kirk Co-author of: Mastering Mac OS X - Tiger Edition http://www.mcelhearn.com/tiger.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more