Re: parted 2.1 crash with (encrypted) Apple Core Storage partition

[Jim Meyering]

Chris Murphy wrote:
> OK, I'm bailing on the debugging because parted-debuginfo isn't signed
> and won't install. :-\

If the lack of a signature is the only problem, running
debuginfo-install with its --nogpgcheck option should work.

> On Feb 8, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> -- copy that image with "cp --sparse=always f.img f-sparse.img" (GNU cp)
>>   on a file system that supports sparse files.
>
> du reports it does from 620M to 595M. The contents of AppleBoot, while
> jhfs+ based, are several disk images which contain the bootable OS, so
> there may not be much to save.
>
>>
>>     tar Svcf - f-sparse.img |xz -ev > f-sparse.img.tar.xz
>>   and post the smaller-still .xz file.
>
> 565M is the final size here. I'm uploading to dropbox and will post a
> public URL once it's done.

Useful in any case.