Windows Images - Too large.

[sami.blackkite]

Hey everyone.
FOG has been great the past couple times I’ve used it and in a current new windows build I’m having a couple issues with cloning and image.

My windows build is about 80-90GB and I’ve been using FOG’s default settings to clone the image.
Before, the image would be a 1 to 1 copy, 90gb on my FOG server, however, this time, no matter how many images I take, FOG always picks up the full drive.

My windows disk is 256GB and my build is 80gb [of used space on the disk]
I only want to take the size of the Windows image.

How can I fix this?
I’ll add some screenshots if required. Thank you.

[Tom Elliott]

@sami-blackkite What are the options you’re using?

This sounds like you’re using non-resizable as the option, but you really want to use resizable.

That said, if the drive is bitlocker encrypted then you’re only option is going to be a raw copy.

[sami.blackkite]

@Tom-Elliott
Hi Tom.
Thanks for the speedy reply.
All 3 windows images that I’ve made are set to

Single Disk - Resizable (1)

Is that the wrong option?

Thanks.

[JJ Fullmer]

@sami-blackkite That’s the right option.
What version of FOG are you on?

[sami.blackkite]

@JJ-Fullmer said in Windows Images - Too large.:

@sami-blackkite That’s the right option.
What version of FOG are you on?

I’m on 1.5.10.5

It says here that the latest one is 1.5.10 and that I’m not on the latest.

https://prnt.sc/SNZxKw_L0WVF

[JJ Fullmer]

@sami-blackkite Looks like you’re on the dev branch, which is good. Updating is always a good first step in troubleshooting stuff like this in case it’s already fixed.
I’m not seeing anything in the commits (https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/commits/dev-branch) that actually looks related since the version you’re on, but sometimes a refresh still helps.

I took a look at the default settings of a new image and it’s close to what I use, only difference is I set compression to 11.

Are you familiar with a debug capture/deploy task? If not, simply check the ‘debug task’ checkbox when queuing up the capture task. It allows you to step through the capture process and you can catch any messages that might be telling us why it’s behaving odd. Just use the command fog once it’s booted up and ready to start the image and you’ll hit enter for each step. You can also set it up to watch it and step through over ssh if you want by, before running the fog command, getting the ip address with ifconfig and then setting a password with passwd then you can ssh into the debug session from your workstation with ssh root@ip.add.re.ss then the password you set. The password will only exist for that session on that machine. SSH just makes screenshotting and or copying any error messages to share here a bit easier.

[sami.blackkite]

@JJ-Fullmer said in Windows Images - Too large.:

@sami-blackkite Looks like you’re on the dev branch, which is good. Updating is always a good first step in troubleshooting stuff like this in case it’s already fixed.
I’m not seeing anything in the commits (https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/commits/dev-branch) that actually looks related since the version you’re on, but sometimes a refresh still helps.

I took a look at the default settings of a new image and it’s close to what I use, only difference is I set compression to 11.

Are you familiar with a debug capture/deploy task? If not, simply check the ‘debug task’ checkbox when queuing up the capture task. It allows you to step through the capture process and you can catch any messages that might be telling us why it’s behaving odd. Just use the command fog once it’s booted up and ready to start the image and you’ll hit enter for each step. You can also set it up to watch it and step through over ssh if you want by, before running the fog command, getting the ip address with ifconfig and then setting a password with passwd then you can ssh into the debug session from your workstation with ssh root@ip.add.re.ss then the password you set. The password will only exist for that session on that machine. SSH just makes screenshotting and or copying any error messages to share here a bit easier.

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Oh thank you so much, JJ.
I’ll give those steps a go and report back.