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10.5: Limit size of Time Machine backups on Time Capsule
Authored by: finitesquid on Thu, Oct 15 2009 at 7:59AM PDT

Has anyone tried this with 10.6 yet? It seems that the MAC address is no longer used in the name of the sparse bundle, and the 'hdutil -size' command is returning an error...

I've played around a bit (tried creating a new image, used Disk Util to resize, etc.), but no luck so far.

10.5: Limit size of Time Machine backups on Time Capsule
Authored by: fabio.fidanza on Wed, Oct 21 2009 at 1:18PM PDT

Tried on Snow Leopard: after about 10 minutes got a
<pre>hdiutil: resize: failed. Operation not permitted (1)</pre>
this is the command i used:
<pre>sudo hdiutil resize -size 400g -shrinkonly /Volumes/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/sparsebundle</pre>

Any idea?