Hard drive resize is not expanding

[Doctrg]

@Tom-Elliott Not a problem. If you guys were here I’d buy y’all a round.

[sudburr]

Using sysprep and an answerfile you can add:

<ExtendOSPartition>
        <Extend>true</Extend>
</ExtendOSPartition>

To the specialize phase.

See ExtendOSPartition.

[Tom Elliott]

Please re-run the installer and try again?

I know it’s a lot of back and forth, but it should work (hopefully).

At least the original and new sizes appear to be expanding on the same originating disk, I have not yet had the chance to test orig < smaller drive and orig > larger drive yet. Just same size disk for now. All appears to be working atleast in that regard.

[Tom Elliott]

A lot of work has been done on this and so far I think we’re on the right path.

The latest init’s are up and ready for more testing, just needing @Doctrg to run the test.

He’s already tested simply deploying back and it’s giving him some issues with the first partition (saying the partition is smaller than the source). I think this is because of the “math” that was being done originally up until I corrected around it last night.

With any luck, however, a fresh upload will enable this image to be deployed to smaller/larger systems.

[Tom Elliott]

I’m excited to hear news (hopefully good, but anything really) when you get a chance. Thank you.

[andreas.paul]

Hi,

i’ve updated to 1.3.5-RC-10, and i have the same issue now. I have an image with 2 Partitions “System Reservated” + C:\ and seems that the partion is also not expand to the size of the harddisk. Yesterday with the older version it has worked.

R,

Andreas

[Tom Elliott]

@andreas.paul What do you mean “with the older version it as worked”?

What older version?

[andreas.paul]

Hi,

yesterday i deploey a windows 10 around 10 times and today after the update he toled me 700mb free. But for now it’s working again. Don`t know what was wrong today morning :-D.

Don’t take care, thanks, i will have an eye on it.

R,

Andreas

[Tom Elliott]

@Doctrg, @andreas.paul If you can try out RC-11 hopefully things will work better for you.

I’ve released RC-11 to try to get more people testing as well. I’m hearing some success and others not so much. Just trying to get things worked out. I know I must be close by now.

Thing’s I’ve personally tested in regards to resizable images.

1. MBR -> Win 7 no extended partition.
   • Originating disk 60GB
   • Smaller disk 30GB
   • Larger disk 80GB
2. MBR -> CentOS 7 no extended partition.
   • Originating disk 60GB
   • Smaller disk 30GB
   • Larger disk 80GB
3. MBR -> CentOS 7 with Extended partition.
   • Originating disk 60GB
   • Smaller disk 30GB
   • Larger disk 80GB
4. GPT/EFI Win 10
   • Originating disk 60GB
   • Smaller disk 30GB
   • Larger disk 80GB
5. GPT/EFI CentOS 7
   • Originating disk 60GB
   • Smaller disk 30GB
   • Larger disk 80GB

[Tom Elliott]

If you already installed, Please re-run the installer. I found a small issue in the approach yesterday and believe it has now been corrected for.

Let me know if it works, or doesn’t.

Thank you,

[Doctrg]

@Tom-Elliott I’m trying to go through the installer this morning and it is failing on Backing up database.

[Tom Elliott]

@Doctrg Can you check disk space?

[Doctrg]

@Tom-Elliott Yep, that was my issue. I’ve updated to RC12 and from what testing that I have done, it seems that everything is working. I’m able to go from a 160GB to a 256GB and also 500GB drive and boot into Windows as well. The resizing seems to be correct as well.