Mac OS X resizeable disk support

[PioDer]

Hello,
Is there any chance to have ability of making resizable OS X images in FOG ?

Best Regards,
Piotr

[Joe Schmitt]

Just make a cron script (see https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/crontab.5.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/5/crontab)

So for example

@reboot /my/expand/script

Just be sure to delete the cron entry after it runs (you can probably make the script do this).

[Quazz]

@Sebastian-Roth Unfortunately my environment isn’t really suitable to use the fog client since they get sold after installation.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Quazz Maybe just use a snaping script??

[Quazz]

@Sebastian-Roth Would it be possible to create a first boot script similar to setupcomplete.cmd for windows to do this?

I prefer to automate as much as I can to eliminate as much human error as possible.

[PioDer]

Thank you for your replies.

I’ll try apply your suggestions (shrink and resize partitions from OS X).

Best Regards,
Piotr

[Joe Schmitt]

Going off of what @Sebastian-Roth said, you could shrink the disk before imaging, and when v0.10.0 of the client is released, create a snapin to auto expand the disk. That way as soon as osx boots up after imaging, the client pulls the auto-expand snapin and runs it.

[Sebastian Roth]

@PioDer AFAIK there is no open source tool to resize HFP+ filesystems (like resize2fs that we use to resize EXT filesystems). I don’t think we will be able to port OS X diskutil to linux any time soon. Please let us know if you know other tools that can resize HFS+!

Are you able to image your OS X clients with non-resizable images? Why do you need resizable? You could just image as non-resizable and expand using diskutil in Mac OS X after cloning…