On Mar 14, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/14/15 6:08 PM, Carl Hoefs wrote:
>> I have a 32GB SD card (encrypted) and I want to bulk transfer the contents 
>> to a new 64GB SD card. I've reformatted the 64GB card, and set it to 1 
>> partition, GUID partition table. In Disk Utility if I try to restore the 
>> 32GB card onto the 64GB card, it puts up an error:
>> 
>> Restore Failure: Source volume is read-write and cannot be unmounted, so it 
>> can't be block copied.
>> 
>> What's a good way to do this?
> 
> I'm not sure you can even restore a smaller source to a larger one, but even 
> if you can, why are you doing that instead of copying the data? (That's not a 
> snark, just wondering what your use case is because that affects the answer.)
> 
> Also, have you tried unmounting the source manually and then mounting it 
> read-only?
> 

In general, there’s no problem ‘restoring’ a smaller disk to a larger one. It 
looks like the problem is that the source disk is encrypted, and unless it’s 
mounted, it can’t be read. Disk Utility wants it both ways: unmounted and 
readable. So I’ll have to find another way…
-Carl



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