Create a case sensitive disk image on macOS

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I need a 'Case-Sensitive' location on macOS. 

$ hdiutil create -size 30g -type SPARSE -fs 'Case-sensitive APFS' -volname Projects ~/Projects.dmg
$ hdiutil attach ~/Projects.dmg.sparseimage
$ sudo setfile -a V /Volumes/Projects/
$ killall Finder
$ mkdir /Volumes/Projects/projects/
$ ln -s /Volumes/Projects/projects/ ~/projects


what happened?

- I created a new disk image with case sensitive filesystem. The type is ‘spare’ which means it will automatically grow when needed, but initially it will take only 50mb on disk.

- I mounted the image

- I hide it on the desktop (This volume will be always mounted, so I don’t want to see the icon of it) – for this I set the invisible attibute with setfile, and restarted Finder

- And finally I created the projects folder inside the volume, and linked it into my home directory.

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