Activity for Clonezilla
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p bea posted a comment on ticket #432
Thank You for the reply but I have no idea what you wrote. I am not a techie! I do not understand, 'keymap' or 'TUI'. To elaborate, the fonts are distorted up until the 'Start Clonezilla' message shows then the fonts are normal. Hope this helps. p-bea
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Robert Zubaly modified a comment on discussion Help
Hi, I recently upgraded my CPU from 13900 to 14900KS. but I don't know how or if this is related to my problem or not. I have used Clonezilla for many years, and on this machine I do a monthly image of the entire M.2 NVME boot drive, which is 1 TB. It consists of two main partitions, one containing only WIN 11, and the other containing installed apps, as well as the other special Windows partitions found on a boot drive. The total used space on this drive, including both partitions, is approximately...
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Hi, I recently upgraded my CPU from 13900 to 14900KS. but I don't know how or if this is related to my problem or not. I have used Clonezilla for many years, and on this machine I do a monthly image of the entire M.2 NVME boot drive, which is 1 TB. It consists of two main partitions, one containing only WIN 11, and the other containing installed apps, as well as the other special Windows partitions found on a boot drive. Normally the disk image is around 80GB, and has been for a long time. This month,...
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Hi, I recently upgraded my CPU from 13900 to 14900KS. I have used Clonezilla for many years, and on this machine I do a monthly image of the entire M.2 NVME boot drive, which is 1 TB. It consists of two partitions, one containing only WIN 11, and the other containing installed apps. Normally the disk image is around 80GB, and has been for a long time. This month, all I have changed is the CPU, and updated WIN 11 to 25H2 from 24H2. When I noticed that the imaging was taking a longer time than usual,...
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Hi, I recently upgraded my CPU from 13900 to 14900KS. I have used Clonezilla for many years, and on this machine I do a monthly image of the entire M.2 NVME boot drive, which is 1 TB. It consists of two partitions, one containing only WIN 11, and the other containing installed apps. Normally the disk image is around 80GB, and has been for a long time. This month, all I have changed is the CPU, and updated WIN 11 to 25H2 from 24H2. When I noticed that the imaging was taking a longer time than usual,...
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Karl Keyte posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Fantastic -thanks, both.. Safe boot was on, and for some reason, so was BitLocker (which must have been automatic, as i didn't switch it on). i switched them both off, repartitioned the USB SSD into two partitions, and it then ah ran like a dream. Very happy - thanks for your quick help.
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Potentially Chuck nailed it. It is Windows (11 Pro) and I do have safe boot on, which I believe I had off previously, so I'll give it another go and see. One thing I wish I COULD do, is boot Clonezilla from the same USB SSD as I want to store the image to, but when I try that, it shows me the device when it gives the device list, but doesn't then offer it as a target onto which to save the image. Karl On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 at 01:37, Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi Karl, You...
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Steven Shiau posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
"One thing I wish I COULD do, is boot Clonezilla from the same USB SSD as I want to store the image to, but when I try that, it shows me the device when it gives the device list, but doesn't then offer it as a target onto which to save the image." -> You can check this: https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/120_image_repository_on_same_usb_stick.faq#120_image_repository_on_same_usb_stick.faq
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Potentially Chuck nailed it. It is Windows (11 Pro) and I do have safe boot on, which I believe I had off previously, so I'll give it another go and see. One thing I wish I COULD do, is boot Clonezilla from the same USB SSD as I want to store the image to, but when I try that, it shows me the device when it gives the device list, but doesn't then offer it as a target onto which to save the image.
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It's only when asking the keymap or the fonts for all the TUI are distorted?
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Hi Karl, You can share the log file /var/log/clonezilla.log, too. It's easier for us to chcek. BTW, if you file system is encrypted, Clonezilla will use dd to clone that.
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chuck posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi Karl You didn't tell us the type of files you are trying to clone, but I'm going to guess that it's Windows. Clonezilla will use dd to clone a Windows disk if it can't read the disk files because Windows Fast Startup is ON or that Windows BitLocker is ON. Make sure that they are OFF and you should be good to go. Also running a Windows Disk Check on your disk is also a very good idea before cloning (C:> CHKDSK C: /F).
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I've been using Clonezilla only for a little while, and have taken about 4 image snapshots of my 2TB laptop SSD to USB storage. The actual usage of the 2TB is about 130GB, so when it's done the image copy, the resulting folder contains about 105GB, which seems about right. Then - as of yesterday, when I tried the same thing again, it just started using a DD copy, and wants to copy the whole 2TB. Firstly, that takes forever, and secondly, my USB storage isn't that big. I'm booting Clonezilla from...
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Great. Thanks for confirming that. Have a great weekend.
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Great. Thanks for confirming that.
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Ken Pergola posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Hello Steven, I apologize I was not more clear. Yes I tested what you told me to test and it generated a populated B3SUMS file so it worked fine and fixed the issue. In my previous post I should have said: ...I tested it and I see the issue fixed in that version you told me to try... My apologies. Thank you very much and please have a restful weekend. Be well and best regards, Ken
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Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? Did you mean 3.3.0-33?
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Could you please use the latest Clonezilla live to run this? i.e., 3.3.0-33 or 20251017-questing? Check if this issue is reproducible or not.
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This should be hardware-relasted issue. Maybe the Linux kernel does not support your hardware well. You might be able to use some of the boot parameters to suppress that. You can try to google to find if any related boot parameter you can assign.
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Todd posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
I have no purchased the card yet. If it doe not work with Clonezilla, I will have to take a different approach.
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Clonezilla released /clonezilla_live_alternative_testing/20251101-questing/clonezilla-live-20251101-questing-amd64.zip
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So have you tried it? If so, please confirm if it worked for yor or not.
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This is an example which you can refer to: #!/bin/bash if [ ! -d "early" ]; then echo "Dir early not found!" exit fi if [ ! -d "main" ]; then echo "Dir main not found!" exit fi # Create uncompressed early cpio (microcode) (cd early/ find . | cpio -o -H newc -R root:root > ../initrd.img ) # Create compressed main cpio (assuming gzip) (cd main/ find . | cpio -o -H newc -R root:root | xz -T0 -v -c -9 --check=crc32 >> ../initrd.img ) echo "Created ../initrd.img"
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So did you follow the hints to clean one of them in your disk? Otherwise Clonezilla has no idea which one you one to keep.
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...We have patched rust-coreutils and used in Clonezilla live >= 20251030- ... Hello and good day to you Steven, Thanks very much -- I see the issue fixed in that version you told me to try. Best regards and much obliged, Ken
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Have you tried the latest Clonezilla live? i.e., 3.3.0-33 or 20251017-questing? https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php We implemented a way to detect the screen size and automatically adjust the font size. It should work better now. Please give that a try if you haven't use that release.
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Not sure actually. Maybe you can give the latest Clonezilla live a try? I.e., 3.3.0-33 or 20251017-questing: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php They come with the latest Linux kernel so it might support your hardware.
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Is this issue reproducible for different type of network repository? Like sshfs or netfs?
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As I mentioned, the file system imaging engine we use is Partclone. It's a block-based tool. It has nothing to do with the files or directories. I totally have no idea where went wrong there. Like I mentioned here: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/435/#0af7 If you can reproduce this issue in a VM, please share the files of VM so that we can try to reproduce the issue here.
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Thanks for your feedback. Actually we have no idea about the "/dev" issue you mentioned. If you can reproduce this issue in a VM, please share the image of VM so that we can try to reproduce the issue here.
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Great. Thanks for sharing that.
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Not very sure actually. It's possible this was due to a hardware issue, like in RAM or hard drive and that caused the data to be broken. Maybe you can try to move the data to another machine to do a image file check using "sudo ocs-chkimg" in Clonezilla live command line prompt.
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Thanks for your feedback. I confirmed this issue. It's due to this bug in Ubuntu Questing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils-from/+bug/2127231 We have patched rust-coreutils and used in Clonezilla live >= 20251030-*: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php Please give it a try and let us know the results.
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Hello . . . I have good news and bad news. I have not been updated on this bug so I must assume that you are unaware of a significant turn of events. Your latest stable version has corrected this issue. Instead of a complete freeze, I get a very long (in computer time) pause and then boot-up continuation. I no longer must use dd. It took dd 18 minutes to back up my system disk. The bad news is the fonts are gawd-awful. I tried all the available system start options and they seem to be the same as...
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Photon posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla server edition
Hi Steven, sorry for the very long delay! Here are the requested logs.
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Jerry w posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi!, Using stable CZ 3.3.0-33 where my custom grub entries contain these switches... linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live config noswap nolocales quiet loglevel=0 edd=on nomodeset \ the file system loads to ram and starts all the OCS pre runs etc. with no delay. Having another CZ recovery set up using alternative stable - 20251017-questing [in case of encountering older hardware], the same grub menus work fine but there is a delay after file system loading to ram while it attempts to do something [initilaise?]...
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jason bishop posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
I am looking for the actual steps to unpack and then repack the initrd.img after modifying one of the shell scripts from the most recent ubuntu release. All of the current documentation suggests using a very old method that does not seem to work with the current multi archive initrd.img.
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james da silva posted a comment on discussion Help
when I try to clone Windows 10 and 11 I get the following message: this disk contains mismatched gpt and mbr partition: /dev/sda confuse clonezilla
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Update: I have just confirmed that, with all else being equal, this issue does not happen on this same machine using 'clonezilla-live-3.3.0-33-amd64.iso' -- the 'BSSUMS' file is properly populated. So the empty 'B3SUMS' issue (0 bytes file size) is isolated only to: 'clonezilla-live-20251017-questing-amd64.iso' This snippet from file 'clonezilla-img' is not to blame because despite this message occurring with 'clonezilla-live-3.3.0-33-amd64.iso', the 'BSSUMS' file is properly populated unlike with...
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Update: I have just confirmed that, with all else being equal, this issue does not happen on this same machine using 'clonezilla-live-3.3.0-33-amd64.iso' -- the 'BSSUMS' file is properly populated. So the empty 'B3SUMS' issue (0 bytes file size) is isolated only to: 'clonezilla-live-20251017-questing-amd64.iso'
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Hello and good day to you Steven, I am not sure if this is a systemic bug or something going on at my side of things but the new 'B3SUM' option in this new (non-testing) Ubuntu based version is not working for me. I think this issue is isolated only to: 'clonezilla-live-20251017-questing-amd64.iso' and not to: 'clonezilla-live-3.3.0-33-amd64.iso' I tried selecting just 'b3sums' in isolation and also all checksums (as below) just to get some more data points: /usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -gm -gs -gb2...
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udance4ever modified a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
It's 2025 and my eyes have officially aged and glad to hear some people have this working! I was very hopeful and wasn't able to get this to work just now. I modified the line in question in a stable (3.1.3) release I had already on my active Clonezilla USB stick (FAT32): set gfxmode=1920x1080 Booted into it but same small font as usual 😑 Tried the KMS with large font & To RAM option (w/o the modification) and this didn't work either 🙄 For the record, I am booting into an x86 MBP 2015 (and where...
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It's 2025 and my eyes have officially aged and glad to hear some people have this working! I was very hopeful and wasn't able to get this to work just now. I modified the line in question in a stable (3.1.3) release I had already on my active Clonezilla USB stick (FAT32): set gfxmode=1920x1080 Booted into it but same small font as usual 😑 Tried the KMS with large font & To RAM option (w/o the modification) and this didn't work either 🙄 For the record, I am booting into an x86 MBP 2015 (and where...
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It's 2025 and my eyes have officially aged and glad to hear some people have this working! I was very hopeful and wasn't able to get this to work just now. I modified the line in question in a stable (3.1.3) release I had already on my current Clonezilla USB stick (FAT32): set gfxmode=1920x1080 Booted into it but same small font as usual 😑 Tried the KMS with large font & To RAM option (w/o the modification) and this didn't work either 🙄 For the record, I am booting into an x86 MBP 2015 (and where...
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It's 2025 and my eyes have officially aged and glad to hear some people have this working! I was very hopeful and wasn't able to get this to work just now. I just modified the line in question in a stable (3.1.3) release I had already on my current Clonezilla USB stick (FAT32): set gfxmode=1920x1080 Booted into it but same small font as usual 😑 Tried the KMS with large font & To RAM option (w/o the modification) and this didn't work either 🙄 For the record, I am booting into an x86 MBP 2015 (and...
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Will this raid card work with clonezilla. I know most will not. https://www.highpoint-tech.com/product-page/ssd6202a Their web site states: HighPoint Industrial and Virtualization solutions feature integrated host, hardware-level RAID 0, 1 and JBOD capability. RAID arrays hosted by SSD6200 series controllers are fully transparent and will be automatically recognized by all current VM and OS platforms as available single-drives. No drivers, special procedures or software application is required.
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Citytech created ticket #190
Samba Network Backup
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shh posted a comment on ticket #434
Some tests later: - 20251017-plucky: I created a new image and did a recovery. /dev is present on the src ext4-partition nvme0n1p2. After recovery, the /dev folder is missing - 20230903-lunar: I created a new image and did a recovery. /dev is present on the src ext4-partition nvme0n1p2. After recovery, the /dev folder is missing. I also did a recovery of an image created with the newer 20251005, (without any resulting /dev afterwards). This is weird, I don't know how this could happen. The old 20230903-lunar...
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Hello! I just checked 20251017-plucky on this machine and could create a proper image, which is also recoverable to the same machine. Thanks for the fix! (However /dev directory is still missing after recovery. I had to create /dev afterwards - but i'm going to track that in the other ticket) Best regards...
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Stable Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33 Released
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santopitar posted a comment on discussion Help
I tested the new version 7.2 of VirtualBox (specifically 7.2.4) and they fixed the problem. I consider this thread closed. Thanks for everything.
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Steve Umpirowicz posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Sorry for the late reply. I'm trying to restore a Clonezilla image. I boot with the iso and the partition table name is garbage and no matter how I try to restore the image, Clonezilla shows it is corrupt. I then went down the path of manually combining the images. I have the following files; - sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.zst.aa - sda2.vfat-ptcl-img.zst.aa - sda3.dd-ptcl-img.zst.aa - sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.zst.aa - bl I first tried to combine the files using cat to create the image; cat sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.zst.aa...
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Stable Clonezilla live 3.3.3-33 Released
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Great. Thanks for confirming that.
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Jonathan DeNoon posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Thanks Steven, version 3.3.0-33 worked as expected.
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So you want to use AMD64 (x86-64) version of Clonezilla live on Mac Machine? Or PC? BTW, have you tried the "manual method" mentioned here? https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
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Thanks for sharing that. We will see if we should enable "-edio" for NVMe devices by default in the future, make sure there is no side effects.
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Turner. posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
I'm perplexed but maybe there's a simple answer? Thanks if there IS. I downloaded uefi version of clonezilla.iso to obviously clone Win11. Using Rufus and its MajicBox. I created bootable clonezilla drive on 15th on the 18th I placed the Bootable drive into the USB port of the macbook air just to look at the files on the USB drive. The WiFi was likely connected to the router. Question can clonezilla dial home or anywhere whilst powered by USB port. Not Booted? I ask as all the files were updated...
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added -edio and saw the results id expect. should have searched this forum before posting!
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Hi All, Got an issue I cant resolve and hoping for some advice. Autorestore USB with 3.2.2.15 in fat32 boot part + exfat for images (partname) and in there, folder called images where the clonezilla images are. USB is Kingston Data Traveler MAX [chosen for the performance] Its working great but in certain scenarios the speed of restores drops massively to the point its pretty much getting slower and slower and never finishing. The thing that makes me think this is fixable is this fact. Where this...
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Great. Thanks for confirming that.
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hkfriends posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
thanks a lot.. it works well again in this build :)
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That's very weird... We never had this issue, and no one reported this issue before. No idea actually...
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It looks like some of the MTD block device is not well supported by Linux kernel, and it might give some I/O errors. That causes Partclone, even in dd mode, failing to save the device as an image. As you have suggested, we have disabled saving MTD block device by default. It can be enabled in expert mode using "-smtd" in Clonezilla live >= 3.3.0-22 or 20251017-*: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php Please give that a try and let us know the results. Thank you.
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Thanks for sharing that. It looks like some of the MTD block device is not well supported by Linux kernel, and it might give some I/O errors. That causes Partclone, even in dd mode, failing to save the device as an image. We have disabled saving MTD block device by default. It can be enabled in expert mode using "-smtd" in Clonezilla live >= 3.3.0-22 or 20251017-*: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php Please give that a try and let us know the results.
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"I tried using zstd to uncompress the files and they are not recognized." -> What was the full command you ran? What were the error messages on the screen? Please take some photos and share them. Thanks.
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Hello Steven pls see attached 2 files
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Thanks for your feedback. Normally partclone.dd will just dump the raw data. However, we will check why it finished but still gave the warning about the hardware issue.
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Thanks for your feedback. So what's the full ocs-sr command you ran? Please share the log file /var/log/clonezilla.log, too. Thank you very much.
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Support imaging MTD block & eMMC breaks full disk imaging
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So used blocks should contain all metadata, including the complete directory structure, right? The src ext4-filesystem contains a /dev folder - I just checked again, via external booting from a different system, and mounting the partition. Process is: - I take a complete image of the whole disk (=EFI(nvme0n1p1)+ext4(nvme0n1p2) - I restore this image completely, but after the completion go into /tmp/root**** (that's where nvme0n1p2 is mounted) and see what what restored. - in the restored partition...
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HI all I am testing latest clonezilla-live-20251015-plucky-amd64.iso and it come with new error on my SSD nvme (mtdblock0) is not supported, I don't have this error on old build clonezilla-live-20250929-plucky-amd64. but recent release Oct come with this error Machine: System Product Name nvme2n1 (372.6G|INTEL_SSDPFR1Q400GBF|pci-0000_05_00_0-nvme-1|PHAK2211004S400AGN) nvme2n1p1 (100M|vfat|In_INTEL_SSDPFR1Q400GBF|No_label|pci-0000_05_00_0-nvme-1|PHAK2211004S400AGN) nvme2n1p2 (16M|No_file_system|In_INTEL_SSDPFR1Q400GBF|No_label|pci-0000_05_00_0-nvme-1|PHAK2211004S400AGN)...
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As mentioned here: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/172781a0cc/ If it's NVMe device, maybe you can enter expert mode, and enable the "-edio" option.
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If it's NVMe device, maybe you can enter expert mode, and enable the "-edio" option.
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Clonezilla actually does not deal with "file" or "directory" in the file system. It just save and restore the used blocks. Hence I have no idea about why you mentioned it does not create "/dev/". Maybe you can share more info why you think Clonezilla fails there is due to lacking /dev?
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Please check this doc: https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq
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