More control with Partitions

[Mitchel Drake]

Hello,
Here is the situation, the 1TB Hard drive is setup with two partitions. Partition 1 contains the operating system and installed software, Partition 2 contains random data that the users store their documents, pictures, etc. As of FOG 0.32 there is no way to upload just Partition 1 to an image and deploy that to another hard drive with the same/similar configuration. My question is will that feature be available in the near future?

[Blackout]

No.

But you can manually rename/remove the image files so the system cannot find them, it will then skip that partition.

[Fernando Gietz]

We have developed this feature, but we use fog 0.30.
The way it operates is simple:
1 º) When you upload the picture for the first time you save the partition scheme in the database, via web services.
2 º) for the next time, the web interface gives you the option to choose which partition you want to upload.
3 º) FOG script on the client, ask via web services if you need to upload the whole disk or just a partition. If the result of the query is running the fogpartinfo ALL, otherwise, it returns the device / dev / sdaX.
4 º) Once the upload process, the web service takes care of Post_Stage2.php to copy the image file of the partition in its place
5 º) Saving the partition scheme you know that images have the same schema, so you can share the image files of partitions.

In this way the code is responsible for making the task of renaming files, and avoid human error.

Example:
The source name image is aula-bz-cursos-A6A-rembo-mantenimiento. We can upload all partitions, sda1(NTFS) or sda5 (NTFS) and share it with aula-bz-cursos-A6A-rembo-gx620_produccion image

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[Lanstack]

Hello

Users of version 0.32 FOG
I have a shared hard drive into 2 partitions. The first contains the system + programs and the second is just to store temporary work files.
How do you back up and restore the first partition?

[Catsrules]

[quote=“Fernando Gietz, post: 252, member: 13”]We have developed this feature, but we use fog 0.30.
[/quote]

That is cool, I would be interested in something like that. Would it to to much trouble to post the coding behind this? Even if it is for the older version, I bet people would find it useful, maybe even update it to the newer version.

@LanStack
At the moment the only way to do this, it to do what Blackout said, and rename or delete the secondary partition image. Then when fog does a restore, will not be able to find the second partition and error out and skip it. As long as your partition layout is exactly the same on every computer, it will not destroy any data on the secondary partition.

The thing that sucks about this setup is whenever you update you image, you will need to remember to rename or delete the secondary partition, otherwise it will overwrite all the data on the secondary partition with the one on the server, and that is not good.

[DanielVass]

i think you should delete the image file

[ismatrix]

My Friend Fernando Gietz
thank you for your help but this feature it is exist in the version 0.32 FOG
pleas any one can help
that’s important to me

[Fernando Gietz]

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I’ve been on vacation.
I did not know that something similar was implemented in FOG. This is the first news I have about it. I’m glad.

[ismatrix]

Never mind my Friend Thank You Man!!!

[prattyy]

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[prattyy]

[quote=“Catsrules, post: 2142, member: 296”]That is cool, I would be interested in something like that. Would it to to much trouble to post the coding behind this? Even if it is for the older version, I bet people would find it useful, maybe even update it to the newer version.

@LanStack
At the moment the only way to do this, it to do what Blackout said, and rename or delete the secondary partition image. Then when fog does a restore, will not be able to find the second partition and error out and skip it. As long as your partition layout is exactly the same on every computer, it will not destroy any data on the secondary partition.

The thing that sucks about this setup is whenever you update you image, you will need to remember to rename or delete the secondary partition, otherwise it will overwrite all the data on the secondary partition with the one on the server, and that is not good.[/quote]

@catsrules
so you are saying that before i deploy the image i shoud delete my second partition??
and what should i do after the deployment to restore the partition and its data?

[boon]

[quote=“prattyy, post: 3330, member: 1074”]@catsrules
so you are saying that before i deploy the image i shoud delete my second partition??
and what should i do after the deployment to restore the partition and its data?[/quote]
I believe he meant that you should delete the second partition from the FOG server, so it does not overwrite the user data partition upon restore.

[prattyy]

Ohh yes sorry I completely misunderstood this.
I deleted the image of second partition and it works
Will do some more tests with diffrent operating systems
Thanks boon

[boon]

[quote=“prattyy, post: 3360, member: 1074”]Ohh yes sorry I completely misunderstood this.
I deleted the image of second partition and it works
Will do some more tests with diffrent operating systems
Thanks boon[/quote]
Nice! I like the easy ones

[ismatrix]

hi prattyy
would you explain your test to know more …
because i try this before but not complete
and what is the path of the image in the Fog.

[Hesham Saladin]

To Blackout:No.

But you can manually rename/remove the image files so the system cannot find them, it will then skip that partition.

Reply:thats true and working…but when i try to use the same image for another Pc it tells me wrong partition table…so how can i use this image for any another pc?

[Varadin]

this feature is really interesting I am managing a park of laptops and I want to keep the manufacturer restore partition. does somone have the sourcecode or a clear walktrough of how to do that in 0.32 or 0.33

[Mason Colbert]

Did anyone ever get a line on the source code or a walk through on this? I am managing dual boot laptops and it would be very useful (and a time saver) to (for example) image the Windows partition while leaving the Centos partition unchanged.

[chad-bisd]

There is a thread/wiki article about some custom mods a guy made for his company. See if you can find that.

[cedsam]

Hello there, where can i find the feature of fernando please? I don’t find out a thread/wiki talking about this