I manage a group of Macs for a broadcast equipment company (and I'm a hobbyist that enjoys the nitty gritty of large scale deployments). I would like to create a system image because... well, it just saves a bunch of time. Previously I used Carbon Copy Cloner for this and it worked moderately well, but it also created some issues that were difficult to solve.
Because of the nature of the company and business (the Macs rarely stay in the same place for more than two days), managing a server to do a NetInstall/NetBoot/whateveritscalled or DeployStudio is nearly impossible. So now I am looking at Apple's ASR.
The challenge is creating an image that contains the recovery partition. Luckily for me, Apple has a help article for that:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5990
BUT, I run into a snag on step 6 in the advanced section. The instructions ask you to resize the image to make room for the recovery partition, but when I attempt to do so I receive an error stating that "Volume format does not support resizing." I have no idea why this is because the volume format is listed as JHFS+, which should be resizable under Mac OS X. Any ideas as to why I'm running into this issue????
Terminal print out, if that helps:
Because of the nature of the company and business (the Macs rarely stay in the same place for more than two days), managing a server to do a NetInstall/NetBoot/whateveritscalled or DeployStudio is nearly impossible. So now I am looking at Apple's ASR.
The challenge is creating an image that contains the recovery partition. Luckily for me, Apple has a help article for that:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5990
BUT, I run into a snag on step 6 in the advanced section. The instructions ask you to resize the image to make room for the recovery partition, but when I attempt to do so I receive an error stating that "Volume format does not support resizing." I have no idea why this is because the volume format is listed as JHFS+, which should be resizable under Mac OS X. Any ideas as to why I'm running into this issue????
Terminal print out, if that helps:
Code:
MrMac:Desktop user$ sudo hdiutil create -srcFolder /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD -size 25g -format UDRW -layout GPTSPUD tempimage
Password:
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created: /Users/user/Desktop/tempimage.dmg
MrMac:Desktop user$ hdid tempimage.dmg
/dev/disk3 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk3s1 EFI
/dev/disk3s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1
MrMac:Desktop user$ diskutil resizeVolume disk3s2 24g JHFS+ Anything 1m
Volume format does not support resizing
Midgard:Desktop ragnarkon$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac OS X 249.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS MacImages 300.1 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install ESD 10.0 GB disk1s3
4: Apple_HFS Install OS X Mavericks 9.4 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 749.2 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s3
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *26.8 GB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 26.5 GB disk3s2