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I have an encrypted .dmg file with some useless files that I need to delete to make space. How can I delete them without having to convert them into a read write system and then back? (Would take 4~5 hours).

Like I said, it's read only so sudo rm -rf tells me that It can't delete it due to it being a read only file system.

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    Check if this can help you. – taliezin May 5 '15 at 14:12
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    Deleting files from the middle of a large encrypted file will in itself be a time consuming task, even if it were a writeable system. It will have to be deconstructed and reconstructed in any case. – Octopus May 5 '15 at 14:58
  • To use a shadow file with the attached compressed image, make the changes and re-create a compressed, encrypted image from it as suggested in Max Felker's answer (superuser.com/a/806321/316104) in @taliezin's link seems to be an attractive solution to me. – Peter - Reinstate Monica May 5 '15 at 16:22
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A read-only file system can only be read (therefore it is named read-only).

To delete files on this file-system you have to remount it read-write.

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  • Looks like it's not so simple as to mount *.dmg read/write. They need to be unpacked and reconstructed, just like tar archives. – user86969 May 5 '15 at 14:31

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