How to specify target partition for image file

[Kirkx]

I have installed Partclone on my partition with Xubuntu (/dev/sda23). Now I want to create an image of:

/dev/sda21 (ext4, the partition contains Linux Lite)

and save that image on:

/dev/sda36 (xfs, dedicated partition for image files)

I can't figure out how to do this. It seems that the image file can only be saved in:

/home/my_username

on the partition where Partclone is installed. So this command works ok:

sudo partclone.ext4 -c -N -s /dev/sda21 -o sda21.img

but when you try to specify the output path to another partition:

sudo partclone.ext4 -c -N -s /dev/sda21 -o /dev/sda36/sda21.img

the error message comes up:

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Partclone v0.2.51 http://partclone.org
Starting to clone device (/dev/sda21) to image (/dev/sda36/sda21.img)
open target fail /dev/sda36/sda21.img: Not a directory (20)
Error exit

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If there is no way around this then one possible solution would be to install some mini version of Linux on my dedicated image partition (/dev/sda36) and run Partclone from there.

I have tried Clonezilla+Partclone but Clonezilla is extremely slow at scanning partitions so I'd rather run a standalone version of Partclone. Besides, I was getting "split_error.L6wzCO" as described on Clonezilla thread here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/260e77c4/

[Kirkx]

I have figured that out. First you need to mount the target partition and then run the partclone command:

sudo mount /dev/sda36 /mnt/sda36
sudo partclone.ext4 -c -N -s /dev/sda21 -o /mnt/sda36/sda21.img

Of course the mount point doesn't need to be /mnt/sda36. If the target partition was mounted from Thunar in Xubuntu the mount point would be:

/media/user_name/target_partition_label

[Thomas]

2 ways
1.
clone (-c) and restore(-r)
partclone.ext4 -d -c -s /dev/sda21 -o sda21.img
then restore
partclone.ext4 -d -r -s sda21.img -o /dev/sda36

1. part-to-part (-b)
   partclone -d -b -s /dev/sda21 -o /dev/sda36

Thomas.

[Kirkx]

Please ignore (post deleted by OP).