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Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after expanding disk?

networksteamIMS — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:37:26 GMT

Hi all,

I followed exactly both sk169153 - How to add a new hard disk to Gaia running on Azure, AWS or GCP and sk156552 - How to increase the disk size of a CloudGuard VM for Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI to expand the disk for upgrading Cloudguard from R81.10 to R81.20 but still got "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" error when doing Upgrade Verify.

Anyone lucky enough?

Regards,

Bill.

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

Bob_Zimmerman — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:23:18 GMT

Those processes specifically cause that error. To upgrade in-place, you must not expand an existing system. They simply allow you to defer rebuilding the VM from when you need more storage to when you want to upgrade.

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

Chris_Atkinson — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:25:06 GMT

Which environment are you trying to upgrade?

Note not all of the errors / scenarios described by sk180769 are avoidable by admin choice / configuration.

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

networksteamIMS — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:39:11 GMT

Oh....... it's quite common for Checkmates to expand disk for whatever reason most likely logs

But somehow it breaks the chance for future in-place upgrade even followed official SK...

I have looked into many discussion post here but loooooooks like everyone ended up with rebuilding the whole machine

I'm trying to upgrade my Azure Cloudguard to R81.20 from R81.10 by the way

Regards,

Bill.

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

the_rock — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:45:41 GMT

Hey Bill,

I know there is a document one of my colleagues put together for a customer she did this for. Let me see if I can find it.

Andy

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

the_rock — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:47:32 GMT

@networksteamIMS

K, found it. I prefer to send it offline, so be free to message me directly and we can connect that way, so I can send it over.

Andy

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

networksteamIMS — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:10:40 GMT

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply. I have just sent you a DM.

Regards,

Bill.

Re: Anyone avoided error "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format" after ex

the_rock — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:13:01 GMT

Got it, just replied.

Andy