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On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>> ....how do I determine the size of the disk image I need to create?
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> You can use 'du' to see the disk usage of your source folder. I
> would add some margin of safety to account for file system overhead
> (better safe than sorry).
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> Use the -k option to get it in kilobytes. Uh, I don't recall if
> that's in 1000s or 1024s.
On the other hand, this -srcfolder param looks promising. No need to
do the calc, the system should already be able to do that.
However, WHY is it that the Disk Utility is NOT AE-aware? This is a
gross oversight on the part of the product manager.
Chuck
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