@anhphuong all assigned to that host. i agree that being able to select what snapins you want at the time of deploy would be nice, but the logic is tricky and there hasn’t been a lot of demand for it.

@NT_Tech the mobile interface has been removed, and the “mobile only” user type can’t be made in the interface anymore, but, you can still create that type of user by directly entering it in the database. that user will only be able to use the PXE boot menu.
i know this is not an ideal solution.

@KevFlwrs the “size on disk” is the partition size that partclone is trying to capture. fog tries to resize the partition down before capturing it, but it can only shrink down to the last used block on the partition. you might be able to get it to shrink down if you defrag the drive before you attempt to capture the image.

@KevFlwrs again, what settings did you use for your image? what you’re seeing would be perfectly normal if you are using a nonresizable image type.

the images didn’t attach to your post, it seems we’ve had a problem with that on the forums lately. i don’t understand what the issue is. what settings did you use for your image?

@Junkhacker further testing suggests that everything works fine without the --ignore_crc flag we have set in all restore operations. i’ve also learned that due to a bug in partclone 2.89, the checksums it was making were practically useless. if/when we upgrade to the newer version of partclone, we might want to consider disabled checksums to be the default, since we’ve been, in essence, operating without checksums all along.

@Scott-B said in Host Server OS Suggestions:
fog will work on any of them, really.
I recommend Debian or CentOS, whichever you’re most comfortable with.
I don’t recommend Arch for production. Only crazy people do that.

@dws88 the installer creates a user named fog. if a user named fog already exists, it ends up changing the password. the install instructions used to specifically say not to create a user named fog yourself, but it looks like that warning has been removed. guess we need to add it back.

@dws88 when you set up the server, did you use an account with the username “fog”?

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a727a8/fog_appreciation_post/