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Partitioning Schemes

  • August 10, 2009
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  • Anonymous

Hi,

Has anyone else been having any issues with the Additional Partitions section of a Configuration in Casper Admin? We've set up a few additional partitions, but whenever we image a machine using this config the partitioning scheme is completely ignored.

Nothing at all shows up in the logs regarding the partitioning.

Anyone got any clues before I go banging on support's door?

Cheers
Dan
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    • jarednichols
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    • August 10, 2009

    You may want to try doing the partitioning manually to see if there are any interactive errors being thrown. If there is not enough contiguous free space, the partitioning will fail. While live partitioning in Leopard is great, Apple needs to include some sort of optimizer so you can put all the free space at the end of the drive to make it really useful.

    The few times I've lopped off some disk space to make a new partition I've needed to use iDefrag first.

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    • Bukira
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    • August 10, 2009

    I've used it with 1 additional partition and it works fine everytime, I've also used my own partition script which also works fine

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    • tlarkin
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    • August 10, 2009

    I just upgraded to 7 today, so I haven't had a chance to play with it that much. However, in the past I have always had a before image 'preflight' script that runs diskutil commands to partition the drive. Never had a problem with it.


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    • Anonymous
    • August 13, 2009

    Thanks chaps for your responses. It turned out to be a PEBKAC!

    Sorry to waste everyone's time.

    Cheers
    Dan

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