Large Harddrives from Apple?

[brad]

Comments

[brentdax]

Here you go!

[crucially]

Don't use filevault, it is quite unreliable if the machine crashes. Instead create a seperate encrypted drive and use that for the data. (Words from a apple kernel engineer).

[brad]

What's the OS X equivalent of LVM or loopback devices, etc?

[feignedapathy]

You can attach a dmg to any mountpoint on the system with "hdiutil attach", creating an almost-like-a-loopback-device. Create an encrypted sparse disk image and shove the attach in your user login script or a startup script. Just like FileVault, only not. ;)

[crucially]

Not entirely sure,

There is MacFUSE at http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/01/macfuse-fuse-for-mac-os-x.html

There is also hdid and hdiutil

[anonymous]

You know what I find odd? Tekserve, the biggest Apple store in NYC, has one of its computer speak panels as "bike riding".

WTF?

[taral]

-4GB lol.

[scosol]

move all your porn out of your homedir-

no seriously, as others have said- don't turn it on- if it fucks up you're screwed-
just create a sparse encrypted dmg and put whatever you need there-