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  • October 8, 2012
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OK, our school recently bought 1850 macbook airs. We had a company image them I was told by the company that because their imaging software would conflict if my os partition was named Macintosh HD I had to rename my os partition to something else, so i renamed to MacintoshHD (no space) everything got imaged and we are fine until i went to re-image in casper because, my image in casper has a space it cant find the HD. my question is there any way to script the renaming of the HD, i have tried diskutil rename / Macintosh HD and it says The new name is subject to file system-specific naming restrictions. Ownership of the specified volume may be required. Please Help.

Best answer by nessts

first off
diskutil rename Macintosh HD
the is important, which is why I hate spaces in disk names and file names, but what does that have to do with Casper not working?

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  • October 8, 2012

first off
diskutil rename Macintosh HD
the is important, which is why I hate spaces in disk names and file names, but what does that have to do with Casper not working?


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  • October 8, 2012

Did you try renaming in the autorun configuration?


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  • October 8, 2012

Sounds like their imaging software is shite if it can't handle a space.


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  • October 8, 2012

Ya it was deploy studio


tobiaslinder
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  • October 8, 2012

Not the imaging software is shite but the company that imaged the machines.

I have aprox 17'000 client-machines up and running at 80 locations. All the system volumes are called "Macintosh HD" and all the machines were imaged with Deploy Studio.


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  • November 1, 2017

I wonder why they told you that. DeployStudio had allowed us to have spaces in our Volume names for as long as I can remember. Certainly in 2012.