wimlib

The NTFS-3G image application mode actually works *only* on raw partitions, not on mounted filesystems. The commands you gave only partitioned the disk, and didn't create an NTFS filesystem on it. Are you sure that you created an NTFS filesystem on it? That would require using the mkntfs program fro...

This is expected since Microsoft's software doesn't support non-default compression chunk sizes, as described in the documentation.

There isn't any workaround for wimlib using memory proportional to the number of files in the WIM image; this is fairly fundamental to wimlib's design. You could maybe split your files into multiple images.

This sounds like an issue with Homebrew and not with wimlib upstream.

Yes, as documented the NTFS-3G image application mode works on a block device containing an NTFS filesystem directly, rather than a mounted filesystem.

Could you contribute a patch for this?

I don't see any issue; all release files match the ones I originally uploaded. For the 1.13.5 release the SHA-256 checksums are: 32fcc9e9b144b7cb1db4c86e104ca78283cdc225e13fe82b273660586aefe323 wimlib-1.13.5.tar.gz 59d0c960e14af4ad18da47aace9802f0eee3b11f647422165ef0b72e12cc529c wimlib-1.13.5-window...

> I use MinGW-w64 (MSYS2) to rebuild Wimlib 1.13.5 statically from source, as explained at the end of README.WINDOWS.

Note that the directions are for Cygwin, not MSYS2. You're pretty much on your own here, but if you can provide a patch that fixes it I'd be glad to apply it.

Update commands currently don't accept wildcards.

You can't directly renumber images with wimlib-imagex, but you can achieve this by exporting the images one by one, since the images will get added to the destination WIM sequentially. For example: for index in 6 5 12 4 9 1 2 10 7 3 8 11; do wimexport src.wim $index dst.wim done wimoptimize dst.wim