GPT Partition error / Partition 4 is too big for the disk
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@enzogislard This is a known problem on newer Windows 10 versions.
They put a partition (recovery I think) after the main Windows partition now, which FOG doesn’t handle that well currently. (it expects ‘data’ partitions to be last)
You can use a partition manager program to move the partitions around.
If you capture it after moving the Windows partition to the end of the disk, then it should work as expected.
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@quazz Hi, excuse me, i didn’t specify the OS I am trying to deploy its a Centos7. I’m really sorry to have forgotten to specify that.
i tried with a better shrink, but i don’t understand him telling me that partition 4 is too big when there is nothing on it.
Here the partition on my PC that i have capture (single disk - resizable).⚡ root@yard18 ~ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.9T 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 175.9G 0 part / ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 31.4G 0 part [SWAP] └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 3G 0 part /boot sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ⚡ root@yard18 ~ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev tmpfs 32G 632M 31G 2% /dev/shm tmpfs 32G 19M 32G 1% /run tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p3 174G 45G 120G 28% / /dev/nvme0n1p2 2.9G 173M 2.6G 7% /boot /dev/nvme0n1p1 200M 12M 189M 6% /boot/efi -
@enzogislard I think it is a similar problem here, even if Centos.
If you move the swap partition before the root partition and then capture it again (in resizable mode) it should work I reckon.
Are you capturing in resizable mode already? Other modes will fail since your source disk is much larger than target disks, even if the partitions on it are smaller than the target disks (could be mistaken about this though)
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@quazz Ok, i’ll try with this method, and yes i used “single disk - resizable”. But i have question about it. if i used the type of image why fog capture the fourth partition ? there nothing on it ?
Than for your help I come back to you once I have tried by moving the partitions.
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@enzogislard It doesn’t care about whether or not there is data on it, the structure gets captured and deployed.
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@quazz Ok, so fog just deploy the partition thanks to the sector, but if one sector exceeded the sector of the disk, he can’t remove the sector not used by the partition and deploy the other sector after that ?
Sorry for my questions, but this is my first time using the fog, so i like have more information about how it work (i discover this tool there are 1 month and i like it
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@enzoGislard It’s exactly as described by @Quazz that FOG is not moving partitions because in the old days legacy BIOS often used fixed sector position information and would break if we move things around. There is a lot that can go wrong and so FOG still worked this way even with GPT/UEFI systems.
I am working on this and hope to get this changed for GPT/UEFI systems at some point.
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@sebastian-roth Thank you for your help, I just deployed the new image after the partition swap (I moved partition 4 before the unallocated memory) and it worked !
Good afternoon :).
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@enzoGislard Over the weekend I worked on this stuff and there is a first init file for testing if you are still keen to give it a try. I have only tested Windows deployment so far.
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@sebastian-roth I would be happy to give you a feedback if I have the opportunity to test your new init (I am an intern so opportunities do not arise all the time :))