Error Deploying image to system with smaller disk than originally captured machine

[matthew129]

Hi All,

I am getting the following error when trying to deploy to a machine with a smaller disk

GPT image and captured as Single Disk Resizeable

Gist of the error is

Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by #### blocks!
You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility

Problem: partition 5 is too big for the disk

at which point it fails and reboots and tries again.

Am running FOG 1.5.9 so has the latest init file which from my reading should solve this but i have read numerous forum posts and cannot get this working

Directory listing

4.0K d1.fixed_size_partitions  
1.0M d1.mbr  
4.0K d1.minimum.partitions  
4.0K d1.original.fstypes     
0 d1.original.swapuuids  
160K d1p1.img   
10M d1p2.img 
4.0K d1p3.img   
41G d1p4.img  
540M d1p5.img  
4.0K d1.partitions

d1.partitions

label: gpt
label-id: 46988BAE-8E46-453D-817C-F86464693B6D
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 976773134
sector-size: 512

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=        2048, size=     1021952, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=68BB4364-6E08-452A-8677-C452CA3F5145, name="Basic data partition", attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=     1024000, size=      202752, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=DCA152CA-0416-42C1-A901-A83D4F47BBDF, name="EFI system partition", attrs="GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=     1226752, size=       32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=FBE1DBAF-9AA5-411B-A779-640E52605B57, name="Microsoft reserved partition", attrs="GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p4 : start=     1259520, size=   974186147, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=1C670310-3A44-410A-90FE-6C2287477AE6, name="Basic data partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p5 : start=   975446016, size=     1325056, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=20784FCC-3CC2-4DD7-97D2-EB71D3F85479, attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"

d1.minimum.partitions

label: gpt
label-id: 46988BAE-8E46-453D-817C-F86464693B6D
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 976773134
sector-size: 512

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start=        2048, size=     1021952, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=68BB4364-6E08-452A-8677-C452CA3F5145, name="Basic data partition", attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start=     1024000, size=      202752, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=DCA152CA-0416-42C1-A901-A83D4F47BBDF, name="EFI system partition", attrs="GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start=     1226752, size=       32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=FBE1DBAF-9AA5-411B-A779-640E52605B57, name="Microsoft reserved partition", attrs="GUID:63"
/dev/nvme0n1p4 : start=     1259520, size=   147730800, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=1C670310-3A44-410A-90FE-6C2287477AE6, name="Basic data partition"
/dev/nvme0n1p5 : start=   975446016, size=     1200688, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=20784FCC-3CC2-4DD7-97D2-EB71D3F85479, attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"

d1.fixed_size_partitions

1:2:3

Go easy on me, im not the greatest with Linux but have got myself this far

[AlexPDX007]

I had a similar problem with DELL laptop GPT partition on M.2 .
After capture, i could not deploy it on other system/brand with different storage size (smaller that is).
My fix was :

1. resize the C : partion to space usage and reboot.
2. recapture the image
3. deploy the new image on the desired system/brand
   

[Sebastian Roth]

@matthew129 said in Error Deploying image to system with smaller disk than originally captured machine:

Am running FOG 1.5.9 so has the latest init file which from my reading should solve this but i have read numerous forum posts and cannot get this working

I think you are on the right track here. Key is you are using the latest init. From the picture we see you are not because it says: Init Version: 20200906 (default init version for FOG 1.5.9)

Download the inits from github (64 bit and 32 bit), put those into /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/ on your FOG server (renaming the original ones). Now when you boot up you should see Init Version: 20210807!

Messing with the d1... files is not needed if you use the latest inits.

[matthew129]

@matthew129

So after doing some further reading i came across one of the developers helping with a similar situation in this post

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15608/imaging-from-large-drive-to-small-drive/12

@Sebastian-Roth suggested to edit the d1.minimum.partitions file do a debug PXE boot and run some commands to deploy the partition structure then capture the d1.mbr file and copy it into the image directory

I have had to calculate my own values for altering the start point of p5 but this seems to have solved my issue for now