I’ve found and read the following link below and feel that I should not be encountering the issues stated.

However I am using XFS with no LVM containers of sorts on my source image so could that be an issue?

There is a blurb about using ext2, ext3, ext4 where XFS is not mentioned but that’s under the section Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable).

https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/management/web/images/#image-type

Hello,
I’m noticing something odd in terms of capturing and deploying images.

I’m capturing and deploying Linux in this case.

While things are working, I wanted to bring this up in the event that I don’t understand how Fog is supposed to work.

I’ve gone with Fog defaults in terms of;
Image Type = Single Disk - Resizable
Partition = Everything

However I’ve captured a system having a 450GB drive with a 450GB partition having 100GB used.

When I deploy that very image to a different system having a 400GB drive, I get the error that the source drive is larger then the target drive and cannot continue.

Conversely when I take that same captured image and deploy it to a system with 1TB drive, it creates a 450GB partition leaving roughly 50% of the drive not partitioned.

Am I misunderstanding how Fog works?

Hey there Tom and many thanks for the reply.

I’m curios about something as I didn’t really customize anything other then adding network storage.

In terms of plugins, I do see a section under Fog System Settings > Plugin System but it’s not enabled. So is that what you mean by the hoststatus plugin as being part of that suite?

However I’ll go ahead and edit referenced PHP file.

Does this setting mean that it’s default and if by chance I do include Windows into my Fog imaging, then it could be seen as Windows which i would like?

I did a little cursory reading on my issue and it seems that Fog mistook my Linux boxes to be Windows, although one system that I registered was seen properly as Linux.

I’ve more systems to register and will update this thread.

Hello,

I’ve been running the latest Fog 1.5.10.1629 w/o issue. Mainly capturing and deploying Linux with plans to do the same for Windows and maybe even Macs.

And it is working wonderfully. A slight mod was to use a NAS as my FTP and NFS storage locations which is working out fantastically well.

My only issue which is cosmetic, is that my host icons in the admin panel are showing as Windows rather than Linux.

Is this metadata of sorts in the database and can I use phpMyadmin to change it?

Or, better to phrase my question as, is there a way that I can manually change it?

Things like this really bother me.