Questions tagged [diskimage]

Use this tag for questions related with DiskImage, a tool to backup and restore partitions, entire harddisks, usb keys, floppy drives and (read-only) optical media on windows platforms.

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How to mount a specific file system on a disk image?

I have a disk image file containing multiple file systems, such as HFS (Journaled) in addition to Joliet or UDF. I want to mount whatever non-HFS file system is there. First, I attach the image without mounting: $ hdiutil attach -nomount…
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Creating a disk image (.dmg) from Objective-C

Is there any library to create a disk image from Cocoa, or is it only possible through Finder?
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OS/DiskUtil: Create auto-resizing encrypted Disc Image

Is it possible, to create a encrypted Disk Image on OSX (DiskUtil or something like that) which will auto-resize by itself while writing files into the image? I am asking because the Create Image Dialog doesn't show any option but only for…
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how to create drag and drop mac installer?

I have made my java application's jar file and now want to create drag and drop installer for it.Also I want to know that how to create shortcut for Applications folder for the same purpose. how can I do this?
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Python Disk Imaging

Trying to make a script for disk imaging (such as .dd format) in python. Originally started as a project to get another hex debugger and kinda got more interested in trying to get raw data from the drive. which turned into wanting to be able to…
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Renaming a mounted disc image

The "source" below is a mounted disc image (dmg), named "New." I'm trying to rename it with a textField string and action. When I complete the action the rename fails and I am unable to eject it. The code works with standard files and folders. Also…
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What are the differences between the two Python 2.7 Mac OS X disk image installers?

Python 2.7 has two different disk image installers for Mac OS X. My questions are: What are the differences between the two Python 2.7 disk image installers? Python 2.7 32-bit Mac OS X Installer Disk Image for Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.6 Python…
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how to fix UUID mismatch when *repeatedly* converting RAW disk image to VirtualBox image format?

In a Docker container I'm creating a full PC Linux image from scratch (using debootstrap and lots of other tools). At the end of the process I'm using qemu-img convert -f raw -O vdi infile.raw outfile.vdi to generate a image file suitable for…
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Writing image to SD card programmatically

I am trying to write a cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS and windows) tool/script which can write .img images to SD cards via an SD card reader connected to the computer. I tried searching a lot for tutorials/references on how this could be done using…
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Creating a disk image using .NET

I need to clone CF cards (with a certain amount of custom functionality that precludes using off-the-shelf cloning tools). I need a proper image for this to work - I can't just copy all the files. I would like to write a program for this in c#, but…
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I have ext2 formatted file system Images. I like to read in terminal all the file system structures data in Linux specifically Ubuntu.Is there a tool>

So I have file system ext2 formatted image files. I like to view Inode, super block, filenames, etc. in the images for formatted file systsem . I like to know is there any tool for this. I need to view these structures like inode, superblock, file,…
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Version Control / Configuration Management for Linux Images

One project I'm working on involves continuously maintaining a base Linux disk image that gets cloned onto embedded devices. Right now, every time a change is made, we log what we've done in a file and save a copy of the disk image. As a software…
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how to create an image of a disk?

I'm developing in .net, but can use c++. I'm looking for a way to create a disk image. Ideally there could be an API somewhere that looks like this: createVMDK(string driveLetter, out string pathToVMDKOutputfile); createVHD(string driveLetter, out…
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Booting gem5 X86 Ubuntu Full System Simulation

I need to run a relatively newer version of x86 disk image on gem5. Starting from this guide I used Ubuntu 12.04 disk image with Kernel v3.2.1 as that combination was worked for someone else. After some point, simulator just hangs, please share any…
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Double callback from Disk Arbitration when mounting disk image

I have a problem using DiskArbitration framework, to catch disk image mounting I register for DARegisterDiskMountApprovalCallback. The problem is that each time a disk image is mounted, the callback is called twice. Why is that and how can I solve…
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