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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
