Hello, I'm trying to clone from an NVMe drive. The kernel sees the drive (lsblk shows nvme0n1 along with the partitions (e.g. nvme0n1p1)) but clonezilla doesn't appear to. Is there a way to force clonezilla to use this drive or are there plans to add NVMe support to clonezilla?
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We have to add that device name to supporting list.
Could you please run:
1. blkid
2. parted -s /dev/nvme0n1 print
then post the results?
If you want to modify that, you can check these 2 files:
/usr/share/drbl/scripts/ocs-functions
/usr/bin/cnvt-ocs-dev
and search all "mmcblk" (more than one place). You should be able to follow that.
If you make it, please send us the patch file.
Thanks.
Steven.
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Please give Clonezilla live 2.4.2-13 or 20150623-* a try: http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
I have added the support for NVMe devices. However, because I do not have any NVMe devices here, so no tests were done here. Please give them a good try and let us know the results. Thanks.
//NOTE// Please backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
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You're a lifesaver. The 20150623 version of Clonezilla Live works like a charm with the NVMe storage I use. I was able to create and restore an image to my Clonezilla server without a problem. Thank you very much. Is there any chance that Clonezilla Server (DRBL) will be updated as well?
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Cool. Thanks for confirming that.
One thing I'd like to make sure is, your machine is uEFI or legacy BIOS mode?
"Is there any chance that Clonezilla Server (DRBL) will be updated as well?" -> If you install unstable drbl, it should have the same programs as Clonezilla live 20150623-*.
Steven.
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Hi Steven, I used HP Workstations for testing, specifically the Z440, Z640 and Z840. These are capable of running both UEFI and legacy operating systems without reconfiguration to switch from one to the other. I hope that answers your question.
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Just to let you know. I updated our Clonezilla SE to the unstable version and so far it works like a charm. Thank you very much for your support, Steven!
By the way, I tried to make a donation with PayPal, but for some reason you have to live in Taiwan to be able to. Why is that?
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Thanks for confirming that.
As for donation, please email me the error messages.
However, may I ask you to donate to Free Software Foundation: https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Steven.
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Hello, I'm trying to clone from an NVMe drive. The kernel sees the drive (lsblk shows nvme0n1 along with the partitions (e.g. nvme0n1p1)) but clonezilla doesn't appear to. Is there a way to force clonezilla to use this drive or are there plans to add NVMe support to clonezilla?
We have to add that device name to supporting list.
Could you please run:
1. blkid
2. parted -s /dev/nvme0n1 print
then post the results?
If you want to modify that, you can check these 2 files:
/usr/share/drbl/scripts/ocs-functions
/usr/bin/cnvt-ocs-dev
and search all "mmcblk" (more than one place). You should be able to follow that.
If you make it, please send us the patch file.
Thanks.
Steven.
I have got the same issue.
root@clone192-168-51-2:~# parted -s /dev/nvme0n1 print
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 256GB 256GB primary
I tried to edit the following files as suggested, but with no positive result:
/usr/share/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions
/usr/sbin/cnvt-ocs-dev
Any advise or help would be appreciated.
I have installed a system with Windows 7. When I boot that system from the Clonezilla server, the blkid command gives the following output:
root@clone192-168-51-3:~# blkid
/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="944405D44405B9CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="C49806B99806AA4E" TYPE="ntfs"
The output of parted is as follows:
root@clone192-168-51-3:~# parted -s /dev/nvme0n1 print
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 256GB 256GB primary ntfs
Last edit: Arthur Tromp 2015-06-23
Please give Clonezilla live 2.4.2-13 or 20150623-* a try:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
I have added the support for NVMe devices. However, because I do not have any NVMe devices here, so no tests were done here. Please give them a good try and let us know the results. Thanks.
//NOTE// Please backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Hi Steven,
You're a lifesaver. The 20150623 version of Clonezilla Live works like a charm with the NVMe storage I use. I was able to create and restore an image to my Clonezilla server without a problem. Thank you very much. Is there any chance that Clonezilla Server (DRBL) will be updated as well?
Cool. Thanks for confirming that.
One thing I'd like to make sure is, your machine is uEFI or legacy BIOS mode?
"Is there any chance that Clonezilla Server (DRBL) will be updated as well?" -> If you install unstable drbl, it should have the same programs as Clonezilla live 20150623-*.
Steven.
Hi Steven, I used HP Workstations for testing, specifically the Z440, Z640 and Z840. These are capable of running both UEFI and legacy operating systems without reconfiguration to switch from one to the other. I hope that answers your question.
Just to let you know. I updated our Clonezilla SE to the unstable version and so far it works like a charm. Thank you very much for your support, Steven!
By the way, I tried to make a donation with PayPal, but for some reason you have to live in Taiwan to be able to. Why is that?
Thanks for confirming that.
As for donation, please email me the error messages.
However, may I ask you to donate to Free Software Foundation:
https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Steven.
Thank you for that link, Steven. I made a donation in your honor. Keep up the good work!
Last edit: Arthur Tromp 2015-07-14
@Arthur,
Great. Thanks for donating to FSF.
Steven.