[CALUG] any clonezilla experts out there?
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET
Sun Jul 11 00:36:57 EDT 2010
You will still have a Partition Table Problem. I would point sfdisk at
it, specifically the -d option. You may have to delete all your
partitions and recreate them.
JIM
BTW, is the Gateway partition a Ghost Image of Windows? If so, 10G
sounds about right. If not, if it's just something like the "Dell
Diagnostics", then 10M seems more to the point.
JIM
On 7/7/2010 7:32 AM, mhartwx at verizon.net wrote:
> Thanks - I think your way will be best. Yesterday I tried just doing
> a back-up disk image using Clonezilla & it said it doesn't like the
> partition table on my disk. I guess that's why the disk to disk clone
> failed too. Mandriva diskdrake sees the 10GB Gateway partition as
> ntfs, but when I fdisk -l sda that partition shows up as unknown.
>
> Hopefully if I partition the new disk myself & then copy everything by
> partitions the new disk will have a proper partition table that I
> could image for back-ups using Clonezilla or other Linux tools.
> mlh
>
>
> Jul 5, 2010 07:57:23 PM, JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET wrote:
>
> 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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