{"id":20312,"date":"2018-01-26T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:41:38","slug":"creating-a-bootable-apfs-clone-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/creating-a-bootable-apfs-clone-from-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Bootable APFS Clone From the Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belightsoft.com\/products\/resources\/apfs-bootable-clone-with-command-line\">BeLight Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.belightsoft.com\/products\/resources\/apfs-bootable-clone-with-command-line\">\n<p>Activate on-disk ownership on your disk volume with the help of vsdbutil tool.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Create Preboot volume in APFS container disk3 that includes BackupClone[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Update dyld&rsquo;s shared cache on clone volume using update_dyld_shared_cache tool[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I would use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create an actual clone, but it&rsquo;s instructive to see these steps using <tt>rsync<\/tt> and Apple tools such as <tt>vsdbutil<\/tt>, <tt>diskutil<\/tt>, and <tt>bless<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/superduper-and-apfs\/\">SuperDuper and APFS<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BeLight Software: Activate on-disk ownership on your disk volume with the help of vsdbutil tool. [&#8230;] Create Preboot volume in APFS container disk3 that includes BackupClone[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Update dyld&rsquo;s shared cache on clone volume using update_dyld_shared_cache tool[&#8230;] Personally, I would use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create an actual clone, but it&rsquo;s instructive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1395,146,538,546,30,1529,318],"class_list":["post-20312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-backup","tag-diskutility","tag-ownership","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-terminal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}