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    • Matthieu JacquartM
      Matthieu Jacquart
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I’m not sure it’s a bug, but I asked some colleagues with fog 1.2 and they don’t have this problem.
      I prepared a linux machine based on Mint 17.3 Xfce distribution, which use less than 7GB space on HDD :

      ecole@ecole-desktop ~ $ df
      Sys. de fichiers blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur
      udev                  492232       4     492228   1% /dev
      tmpfs                 101428    1268     100160   2% /run
      /dev/dm-0           75519088 5908904   65750936   9% /
      none                       4       0          4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
      none                    5120       0       5120   0% /run/lock
      none                  507136      76     507060   1% /run/shm
      none                  102400      24     102376   1% /run/user
      /dev/sda1              49320   47834          0 100% /boot
      

      I uploaded image, but image is more than 30GB !

      root@FOG:/images$ du -h Mint2/
      31G     Mint2/
      

      Here is my image parameters :

      0_1459432920274_Mint.JPG

      Thanks

      Fog 1.5.9.138
      Debian 11
      Vmware ESXi

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      • george1421G
        george1421 Moderator
        last edited by

        Just requesting some additional details.

        1. I assume you are using the fog trunk version, what is the git version (from the cloud on management page)
        2. What is the actual physical size of the disk you captured. (Thinking FOG did a raw capture and not a resizeable capture)
        3. What was the disk os format of the disk you caputred (ext3, ext4, xfs, etc)?

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        • Matthieu JacquartM
          Matthieu Jacquart @george1421
          last edited by

          @george1421

          1. git 7009
          2. HDD 80GB (I think like you its look like a raw image, half compressed)
          3. LVM partition and ext4 file format

          Fog 1.5.9.138
          Debian 11
          Vmware ESXi

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          • Tom ElliottT
            Tom Elliott @Matthieu Jacquart
            last edited by

            @Matthieu-Jacquart That’s the issue. LVM is not recognized so cannot be resized.

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            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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            • Matthieu JacquartM
              Matthieu Jacquart @Tom Elliott
              last edited by

              @Tom-Elliott
              ok, so I re-install Mint but I don’t check LVM box ? No other way ?

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              • Tom ElliottT
                Tom Elliott @Matthieu Jacquart
                last edited by

                @Matthieu-Jacquart Correct. I don’t have a viable method to detecting LVM at the moment. If given enough time I’m sure we could figure out how to mount the LVM and resize based on the LVM data, but I don’t think it will be anytime soon. We might even (given even more time) be able to shrink/resize LVM partitions themselves, though I suspect it would be needed to do the Volume as a whole, not the volume container itself.

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                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                • george1421G
                  george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                  last edited by george1421

                  @Tom-Elliott Then with compress at level 7. The best he can squeeze that 80GB disk down to is about 53GB. (asking not telling).

                  If that is true, then the only way to change the image size is to 1. Increase the compression ratio (with marginal success) or 2) remove LVM and just use native ext3 or ext4 partitions.

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                  • Tom ElliottT
                    Tom Elliott @george1421
                    last edited by

                    @george1421 Remove LVM would be the only way to do this properly.

                    Raw imaging captures the disk as whole/partition as whole. (even though the data may take MUCH less room).

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                    Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                    • Matthieu JacquartM
                      Matthieu Jacquart
                      last edited by

                      Ok, I know what I have to do, so bad…
                      We are agree that compression ratio 7 will produce image smaller that compression ration 1 ?

                      Fog 1.5.9.138
                      Debian 11
                      Vmware ESXi

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                      • Tom ElliottT
                        Tom Elliott @Matthieu Jacquart
                        last edited by

                        @Matthieu-Jacquart Correct. Compression 9 is better than 1. However, the difference between 7-9 is nearly negligible.

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                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                        • george1421G
                          george1421 Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Knowing what we know now, has this issue been solved? OR do you want to wait until you can rebuild the image without LVM.

                          Just trying to do a bit of house cleaning.

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                          • Matthieu JacquartM
                            Matthieu Jacquart @george1421
                            last edited by

                            @george1421 You can solve it, I will reinstall my distrib tomorrow

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