Mavericks Image - Not Enough Space.

[sirsir]

I created an OS X Mavericks Image for our 2011/2012 MacBook Airs using the latest 2012 model MacBook Air. Upon imaging a 2011 MacBook Air, I get the following error message: "Imaging "computer name" could not continue because there is not enough space on the disk." However, Imaging completes normally on a 2012 Air. Previous 10.8.5 images made with the 2012 Air work fine on older models. The SSD is being formatted and partitioned before imaging so there should be ~57GB of free space. The configurations in Casper Admin are exactly the same. Am I missing something? Is this a bug?

[jimlee]

How big is your Mavericks image?

[pblake]

Firmware upgrades are needed on a lot of the Airs for Mavericks. That may be the issue.

[sirsir]

Mavericks Image is 15GB in total; all Firmware updates have been applied before wiping the drive out.

[pnbahry]

I have used the following work around to resolve this for me. I had everything working fine in Casper 8 and the problem only appeared once we started using Casper 9.

I had a min install of OSX for a bootcamp MacBook Air and when I went to image it I got the same error : "Imaging "computer name" could not continue because there is not enough space on the disk."

This is my current work around:

- Created a new smaller partition on the MacBook Air, in my case it was a 10GB Partition and then restored the original image on it using carbon copy cloner.

- Created a new .dmg by using composer off the new 10GB partition.

- Uploaded the new .dmg to Casper Admin.

Everything imaged without any errors.

[sirsir]

That worked, but you have to manually adjust the partition size on each individual machine after it's done imaging. It's not expanding automatically to fill the empty space.

[dgraham125]

Apparently this is a Mavericks issue. The Mavericks image was created on a partition larger than the partition you're trying to put it on. I tested my current partition setup using a Mountain Lion image and it works fine, even on smaller partitions.

I tried the suggestions in this article on my Mavericks iMac base image created with Composer and it didn't help. The response was "Volume format does not support resizing". http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5990

One suggested workaround is to recreate the image on a smaller partition that the partitioned hard drives can handle. I may do this to save time and get my employees imaging, but this is not a permanent solution. Anyone have any ideas on this? Could something be built into Composer to handle Mavericks when the partitions are smaller?

Thank you.

[Nix4Life]

Yep dgraham is correct. re-sized the partition on my test machine, re-ran composer, image works

[sswartz]

I think this feature request would help make this easier.

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=1254

[fabian_ulmrich]

I ran into the same problems. After re-creating the .dmg file with superduper, it worked directly. So apparently this issue is related to DiskUtility or Composer.