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    • AbuelikaA
      Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
      last edited by

      Hi @sebastian-roth when I try to capture the image, the following error appears:

      alt text

      GFG! ¬¬!

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      • S
        Sebastian Roth Moderator
        last edited by Sebastian Roth

        @Abuelika Oh … why the he** do I always forget about we are not able to resize HFS+ filesystems. Don’t know why! Sorry for that. Just forget what I said!

        So this leaves you to maybe try shrinking the Mac OS X system by hand I am afraid. Search the web on how to do this. I am not sure this can be done at all but I think I’ve read about it somewhere.

        Would be an awesome feature to add to FOG to have resize work for Mac OS X as well. But seems like there are no reliable tools out there to do this as of now.

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        • AbuelikaA
          Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
          last edited by

          Hi @sebastian-roth

          I have been reviewing, and the source is a 120Gb disk and the destination is 250Gb.

          It is rare that the problem is of disk size, when the source is smaller than the destination.

          tnx!

          GFG! ¬¬!

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          • Tom ElliottT
            Tom Elliott
            last edited by

            Is it possible this is related to the 32 bit issue in HFS as it was in the other thread @Sebastian-Roth?

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            • S
              Sebastian Roth Moderator
              last edited by

              @Tom-Elliott Don’t think so. But what do I know…?

              @Abuelika Please do me a favour and boot up both clients in debug task (capture or deploy, doesn’t matter). When you get to the shell run fdisk -l /dev/sda (that’s for the source machine and fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1… Post pictures here.

              Ahhhhhha, now that I am writing this I have an idea. Possibly we are not able to move from a SATA disk (/dev/sda) to one of these new disks (/dev/nvme0n1). Not sure if I can test this.

              Give this a try: Make a backup copy of the partition layout file and then edit those files which you find in /images/MASTERMACOS2017/d1.partitions. Make it look like this:

              label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 234441614

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=          40, size=      409600, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=      409640, size=   232762432, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=   233172072, size=     1269536, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

              Save the file and try deploying the MASTERMACOS2017 image again.

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              • AbuelikaA
                Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
                last edited by

                Hi @sebastian-roth ,

                Source:
                alt text

                Destination:
                alt text

                I have modified “/images/MASTERMACOS2017/d1.partitions” with the information provided and the error is the same.

                GFG! ¬¬!

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                • Tom ElliottT
                  Tom Elliott @Abuelika
                  last edited by

                  @abuelika This appears to be a 4k disk then? I mean, the sector size is correct for 512, but not for 4096.

                  E.G.:

                  234441647 * 512 = 120034123264 (about 120 GB)
                  234441647 * 4096 = 960272986112 (about 960 GB)

                  Where:
                  61279344 * 512 = 31375024128 (about 32 GB)
                  61279344 * 4096 = 251000193024 (about 250 GB)

                  @Sebastian-Roth I don’t know how to handle this anymore. We have to use 512 for blockdev elements. Getting the block size is actually quite easy, though I’m still sure it’s working properly RC’s - but if this is 1.4.4 those changes should be present as well.

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                  • Tom ElliottT
                    Tom Elliott
                    last edited by

                    I imagine, however, resizable or not, this is a problem as the way the disk is presented on one system (512 byte sector sizes) to another system (4096 byte sector sizes).

                    I know there’s a way to adjust a disks byte sector size. Something like:

                    blockdev --setbsz 512 /dev/nvme0n1

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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott
                      last edited by

                      Maybe we can use information from this posting to help us out? It’s coming from Rod Smith directly and he would probably be the guy who knows his stuff considering he wrote gpt disk utilities.

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                      • S
                        Sebastian Roth Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Ahh, now I see. Give me a bit of time with this and I am sure I’ll comes up with a solution to this. Though it might sound like a good idea to set the NVME drive to 512 I don’t think this is wise to do. I have a bit of free time tomorrow and will dive into this more deeply…

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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott @Sebastian Roth
                          last edited by

                          @sebastian-roth I totally understand. I tried in the past and failed miserably, so I don’t mean to put more on your shoulders, I just don’t know how to best approach. In particular, fixing this issue for resize should be simple, but how can we fix for non-resizable images?

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                          • AbuelikaA
                            Abuelika @Tom Elliott
                            last edited by

                            In the first instance

                            Many thanks to @sebastian-roth and @Tom-Elliott for the work you are doing.

                            The fastest solution I have found is the following:

                            My Solution:

                            • Mac with SATA ( Sector size: 512 bytes ) hard disk cloned with “FOG”, we created a “TimeMachine” and restored in iMAC computer with M2 disks ( Sector size: 4096 bytes ) .

                            • We create an image with FOG Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable)

                            • Perform a capture of the equipment with disk M2 with “FOG”

                            • We deploy the image to all iMac computers with M2 hard disks

                            Work fine!

                            GFG! ¬¬!

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                            • george1421G
                              george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                              last edited by

                              @tom-elliott While I’m not sure what I can add to this thread, I do have to say I have several 4K sata drives that were purchased before I realized that ESXi didn’t support 4K drives (yet). If you need me to test anything (under linux or ms windows) I have the facilities to do so.

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                              • S
                                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                last edited by Sebastian Roth

                                @Abuelika Good to hear that you could make this work but I think this is a general issue that we’ll be seeing more and we need to figure this out. I’ve dug my head in the sector count swamp and would like to ask you to test something that I came up with.
                                Hope you still have that 512 based image somewhere. Please edit the d1.partitions file again and make it look like this:

                                label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 5
last-lba: 61279312

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           5, size=       51200, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       51205, size=    29095304, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    29146509, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

                                Make sure to get the values for *-lba, start and size right. I didn’t change the type or uuid values at all. Then do a deploy to the 4096 machine again.

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                                • AbuelikaA
                                  Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
                                  last edited by Abuelika

                                  Hi @sebastian-roth

                                  okay. now I’m not in the office, tomorrow at 8:00 am I will do the test. I still have the image.

                                  I leave you the content of d1.partition of the new image made to imac with m2, in case you are interested.

                                  label: dos
label-id: 0x00000000
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           2, size=    61279342, type=af

                                  root@fogserver:/images/MASTERMACOS2017_modelnou# ls -l
total 28790796
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root        1024 sep 13 11:01 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29481762309 sep 13 11:17 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root         132 sep 13 11:01 d1.partitions

                                  GFG! ¬¬!

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                                  • S
                                    Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @abuelika said in NEW iMac problems:

                                    label: dos

                                    What?!??!?! This doesn’t make any sense to me. Mac OS X is UEFI as far as I know, why would they use a legacy DOS/MBR partition layout? You said you transfered the system using TimeMachine? And it does boot properly? That’s crazy I reckon.

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                                    • AbuelikaA
                                      Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
                                      last edited by Abuelika

                                      Hi @sebastian-roth ,

                                      I have modified the file d1.particiones with the facilitated content.

                                      I have now unpacked another iMac with m2 and I’m capturing the image to review the d1.partitions and check the label to see if dos or gpt.

                                      This is the content I have modified from d1.partitions.

                                      label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 5
last-lba: 61279312

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           5, size=       51200, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       51205, size=    29095304, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    29146509, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

                                      Result:
                                      alt text

                                      GFG! ¬¬!

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                                      • AbuelikaA
                                        Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi @sebastian-roth

                                        I’ve unpacked an imac with M2 and I captured the image.
                                        The contents of the d1.partitions file:

                                        label: gpt
label-id: 7D761C2A-8679-400C-9795-BFCB65054221
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 6
last-lba: 61279338

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           6, size=       76800, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=E40E5108-F939-489B-BC7B-0E77CE5E42E3, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       76806, size=    61043841, type=53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=81584085-44EC-4186-A82C-FC857C07A63E
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    61120647, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=0C9A6601-5C3C-4A73-8E52-A74AFAE873CC, name="Booter", attrs="GUID:49"

                                        the contents of the folder

                                        root@fogserver:/images/MACNOU-NET# ls -l
total 18645544
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root       17920 sep 14 09:06 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root         249 sep 14 09:06 d1.original.uuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14480899 sep 14 09:06 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18527785416 sep 14 09:58 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   550725927 sep 14 09:59 d1p3.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root         610 sep 14 09:06 d1.partitions

                                        I think the problem of label: dos is that an empty disc was recovered with “TimeMachine” without an operating system.

                                        Now I am doing a capture of an iMac with M2 with operating system and restored with TimeMachine.

                                        GFG! ¬¬!

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                                        • S
                                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @Abuelika Thanks for trying and posting results. It’s good to know how the partition table on a fresh machine looks like and from the numbers it seems like I am not too far of it. Though we can’t directly compare the numbers I think as those were created by a someone else. But definitely good to know that my calculated numbers are kind of in that same range.

                                          Please add isdebug=yes ismajordebug=1 again, try my suggested partition table again (first-lba: 5) and post a picture of the output on screen. So we see if it is the very same or a different error.

                                          I compared the tables and the main difference from my point of view is that the new one you posted is starting at sector 6 whereas I calculated it to start at sector 5 (original 40 divided by eight (4096/512)). In an UEFI style system we should be able to move partitions as the boot loader doesn’t rely on sector counts. So you might also try this one (all partitions shifted by one sector):

                                          label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 6
last-lba: 61279312

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           6, size=       51200, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       51206, size=    29095304, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    29146510, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

                                          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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                                          • AbuelikaA
                                            Abuelika @Sebastian Roth
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi @sebastian-roth ,

                                            Results with the following d1.partitions

                                            label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 5
last-lba: 61279312

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           5, size=       51200, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       51205, size=    29095304, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    29146509, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

                                            alt text

                                            Results with the following d1.partitions

                                            label: gpt
label-id: EB5F756F-5E64-4990-8B9C-5F2826AFDEC2
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 6
last-lba: 61279312

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=           6, size=       51200, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=F803B6B4-FAF1-4700-814F-4CC7B6AA693D, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=       51206, size=    29095304, type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=2CA043B5-1BA4-4052-AC59-AA30F67E556D
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=    29146510, size=      158692, type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, uuid=989E4FD8-2721-4B58-A6B4-24E3334F1165, attrs="GUID:49"

                                            alt text

                                            GFG! ¬¬!

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