[CALUG] any clonezilla experts out there?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I have never used clonezilla. And unless I wanted to take the time and 
effort to learn it, I'd do it by hand.

Assuming that the new 500G disk is in the machine as sda and the old 
250G is in a USB enclosure as sdb, this is what I would do:

[1] Boot the Mandriva Linux install media.On the step before the disk 
partitioning go to Virtual Console 2 with CTRL ALT F2
[2] Print or write down both disk labels: fdisk -l /dev/sda; fdisk -l 
/dev/sdb
[3] Create sda1 and sda2 to exactly match sdb1 and sdb2 using fdisk.
[4] Create sda3 with the same length as sdb4. Put the ntfs DATA 
partition here, following the Gateway and OS partitions.
[5] Make sdb4 be an Extended Partition. Carve it up the say you want. 
Remember that you will have an additional  250G to play with, so you can 
either add new partitions, or make an extra LVM space to carve up.
[6] Copy the Gateway and OS Partitions via dd: cd /dev; dd if=sdb1 
of=sda2; dd if=sdb2 of=sda2 bs=63b
[7] Unmount everything and do a fresh install of Mandriva. Merge what is 
on sda5 by hand. Set up grub.
[8] Move /home via rsync. Do it twice, as sometimes it gets confused and 
craps out.
[9] Boot Windows and copy the DATA partition using the File Manager. 
COPY rather than move, and you have a Backup.

JIM

On 7/5/2010 2:59 PM, mhartwx wrote:
> This may be too simple for this list, but I've been wasting a lot of
> time on this&  not getting anywhere.
>
> My Gateway laptop (250GB) hard drive acts flaky every once in a while so
> I bought a larger 500GB replacement. Since I can't connect it as a slave
> like I would with a desktop, I got an enclosure for it&  tried to do a
> disk to disk clone using Clonezilla Live on a CD. But it looks like
> Clonezilla is taking the entire target disk&  allocating it as one
> partition to clone the first (Gateway) partition, which it does
> successfully.  Then when it tries to clone sda2 to sdb2 it says that
> sdb2 is not found&  does the same thing for the rest of the partitions
> on sda.  I then tried to make partitions on the target drive to match
> the source&  got a different error this time - it said the sdb2 target
> partition (1MB) was smaller than the source.  I can't find any internet
> comment about having to make partitions on the target drive or having to
> give Clonezilla any extra help with a multi-partition source disk.
>
> This is a Vista/Mandriva dual-boot system&  I downsized the 2 nfts Vista
> partitions (OS&  data) - leaving the Gateway partition strictly alone -
> &  took half of each Vista partition space for the ext3 Linux partitions.
>    Here is the physical layout of my disk according to Mandriva control:
>             (fstab says there are 7 partitions)
>
> sda1   10GB   ntfs (gateway)    media/hd
> sda2   61GB   nfts  (OS)           media/hd2
> sda5   7.8GB   ext3  (/)
> sda6   3.8GB   swap
> sda7   38GB    ext3  (/home)
> sda4   55GB   ntfs  (DATA)       media/hd3
> sda8   55GB    ext3  /ldata
>
> Here is what Clonezilla lists after it couldn't clone the sda2-8 partitions:
>
> sda    244 million blocks  		(8 major partitions, #0 minor)
> sda1   10 million blocks   boot           8           1
> sda2   64   "          "                           8           2
> sda3    1   single block                       8          3
> sda4   58 million blocks                     8           4
> sda5   8     "         "                            8            5
> sda6   4    "          "                            8            6
> sda7   39    "           "                         8            7
> sda8   58    "         "                           8           8
> sdb    (488 million blocks)                 7          16
> sdb1   488 million blocks                   7          17
> loop0  103140 blocks                        7            0
>
> Any ideas of what's going on with Clonezilla?  Is there something about
> my drive set-up that it can't handle? Is Clonezilla seeing a hidden sda3
> partition (not in my fstab) that keeps it from making more than 1
> partition on the target disk?  I can't use dd to brute force clone the
> disk since the drives aren't the same size, so I'd like to get
> Clonezilla working.
>
> 	ml hart
>
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