Re: hdiutil instead of Disk Utility to create Base Image, cache

I actually put this bug up on OpenRadar, and it is Radar number 7527256. I would link to it, but these forums tend to think I am spamming when posting urls. I am pretty sure that Apple doesn't like posting anything about any radars, and that includes OpenRadar. I generally take that into consideration, and post some of the Radars I file because I think that other people might do exactly what you are asking and post duplicates because they care about the issue. I should have posted the chroot one under this rubric, but right now that Radar is in an account I don't have access to. To be clear about this: filing duplicate Radars is a really good thing, it tells the people who control what engineers work on what bugs are being run into by people in the real world. Filing duplicates helps them to justify throwing engineer's time into fixing this thing, rather than fixing that thing. If you care about the issue behind a Radar, by all means file a duplicate bug. If you have other channels to Apple Engineering (like an Apple Support contract, a Support Engineer, or even a good sales rep), then by all means use those as well. Once I get access to my other account I will try and post the Radar number for my chroot bug. The other day I verified that it is still an issue that I can't work around. And the workaround should look like: [code]hdiutil create -srcfolder "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD" -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=6 "/Volumes/Destination/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg"[/code] ... so you are only using one form of escaping (either quoting, or back-slashes, not both). And I have not seen a hang at this point. Are you sure that it was just not giving feedback?