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OS X CoreStorage Volume - shrink and create new

Just a quick tip on how to shrink an existing CoreStore volume and create a new volume inside the free space. Since the gui Disk Utility won’t offer this feature you have to jump the shell again. diskutil corestorage list diskutil corestorage resizeVolume 953ED8ED-4373-4A2E-AA0B-747D3EEC1FDE 710G diskutil corestorage createvolume 953ED8ED-4373-4A2E-AA0B-747D3EEC1FDE

Changing a file vault 2 disk password

Changing the password of a file vault 2 protected disk is fairly easy: At first fire up the terminal and execute diskutil corestorage info /Volume/DriveWhichNeedsaNewPassword If you are key-stroke aware you can abbreviate corestorage with cs. fabian@heartofgold ~ diskutil corestorage info /Volumes/Time\ Machine Core Storage Properties: Role: Logical

SSH/SCP Connection stalled

somerandomfile.tbz2 0% 256KB 3.1 KB/s - stalled - Note to myself: If you are trying to SCP a file and get greeted with a nerv-racking -stalled- after a few seconds, check your ~/.ssh/config for enabled compression. Disabling the compression did the trick for me after some

yet another alfred screenshot extension

Why another alfred [http://www.alfredapp.com/] screenshot extension? Crawling the web for the right extension takes about the time to write a new one. Why I wanted a screenshot solution that is not Skitch [http://skitch.com/]? When using a custom server you have to click the share button,

Lion: Full Disk Encryption auf externen Platten

* Schritt 1: Wir öffnen das Terminal (über Spotlight oder im Dienstprogramme/Utilities Ordner zu finden) * Schritt 2: Devicenamen vom Datenträger finden. Diesen findet man in der Identifier Spalte diskutil list /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk2 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

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