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Anyone know of a method of finding the _type_ of dmg? - mattkime - 02-16-2007

Anyone know of a method of finding the type of dmg? I have a number of them and I'd like to verify that they're compressed.


Re: Anyone know of a method of finding the _type_ of dmg? - TheTominator - 02-16-2007

In the Terminal use:

$ hdiutil imageinfo yourdiskimage.dmg

In the output you should find a line like this:
Format Description: UDIF read-only compressed (zlib)