Hard drive resize is not expanding
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Using sysprep and an answerfile you can add:
<ExtendOSPartition> <Extend>true</Extend> </ExtendOSPartition>To the specialize phase.
See ExtendOSPartition.
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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.
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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.
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I’m excited to hear news (hopefully good, but anything really) when you get a chance. Thank you.
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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
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@andreas.paul What do you mean “with the older version it as worked”?
What older version?
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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
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@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.
- MBR -> Win 7 no extended partition.
- Originating disk 60GB
- Smaller disk 30GB
- Larger disk 80GB
- MBR -> CentOS 7 no extended partition.
- Originating disk 60GB
- Smaller disk 30GB
- Larger disk 80GB
- MBR -> CentOS 7 with Extended partition.
- Originating disk 60GB
- Smaller disk 30GB
- Larger disk 80GB
- GPT/EFI Win 10
- Originating disk 60GB
- Smaller disk 30GB
- Larger disk 80GB
- GPT/EFI CentOS 7
- Originating disk 60GB
- Smaller disk 30GB
- Larger disk 80GB
- MBR -> Win 7 no extended partition.
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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,
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@Tom-Elliott I’m trying to go through the installer this morning and it is failing on Backing up database.
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@Doctrg Can you check disk space?
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@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.
