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.
Questions tagged [diskimage]
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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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