Activity for Clonezilla
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DeadGuy posted a comment on discussion Help
[quote]ps. You can prevent this by using -k and -r (resize filesystem to partition size)[/quote] I should have stated this initially; The -r switch was automatically added as per the terminal output in guided beginner mode. The terminal output stated "Next time you can run this command directly...", and it included the -k- r switches. So, the issue remains.
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IDad5 posted a comment on discussion Help
I had a similar issue (or so I thought) as described here: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b8969011e0/ but with the difference that neither the BIOS nor Windows reported the new disk size correctly anywhere. I might try again with the additional -r parameter but I'm not really hopeflul as the disk part approach didn't work for me, so the root cause might not be the same... I am really desperate by now and would appreciate any help.
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I have now erased the new SSD 990 by connecting it to my Mac, which recognized the hardware correctly and I was able to erase it and have an Ex-Fat Partition with 4TB. After that I connected the drive via USB-C to my PC which war running with the old dirve again. I successfully cloned the Disk once again (and clonezilla let me choose the 990 as such with the right capacity as target drive. After a successful cloning run this time I did remove the old SDD and replaced it with the new one. The BIOS...
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I'm sorry if this is a duplicate, but I have searched and didn't find anything. I cloned my Win 11 system drive from a 1TB Samsung EVO Plus 970 to a new Samsung EVO Pro 990 with 4 TB. I did everything exactly as in this instruction: https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone And everything went fine. (And yes I did choose the -k1 option) The new drive was connected via USB and after the successful run I went to exchange the old drive with the new...
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Balazs posted a comment on ticket #436
I tested it with 3.3.1-5 and everything worked as intended, thank you! This ticket can be closed, I guess.
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Mark Marques created ticket #191
ReFS ( Windows server filesystem ) support ?
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kokutou kiritsugu posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
root xfs size wrong
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3.3.1-5 same problem
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Brian posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
I tested at home successfully with 3.2.2-15. At work there is an older mid 2024 version and one I just downloaded last week. What I discovered is that it looks like LVM with the thin option is at least part of the cause. If I build a test system at work and do a backup and restore with the 2024 release, the restore fails with the thin option enabled. If I do not do that, then it works. The backup was made with the mid 2024 release. I did not build that system; I will need to see if the backup has...
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Michael Prokop posted a comment on ticket #437
I'm not the actual user but forwarding this from https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/264, but I'll try to get this confirmed/verified, will keep you posted
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Steven Shiau posted a comment on ticket #436
Please give testing Clonezilla live a try, i.e., >= 3.3.1-5 or 20251124-*: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php Let us know the results if you try it. Thanks.
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Clonezilla released /clonezilla_live_alternative_testing/20251124-questing/clonezilla-live-20251124-questing-amd64.zip
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If you are sure the netcat-openbsd (version >= 234) works in the remote-dest function of Clonezilla in your case, definitely we can remove that check. Hence please confirm that. Thanks.
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So any reason you have to use netcat from OpenBSD? If so, which function you want to use with Clonezilla? Yes, netcat-openbsd is what's shipped on the Grml live system, so netcat-traditional isn't available there. The problem appears when starting clonezilla , choosing remote-dest and going for the restoredisk option there. Would be nice if clonezilla wouldn't abort there, otherwise I think we'd have to add an according Conflicts: netcat-openbsd in the Debian package of clonezilla, though this would...
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So which version of Clonezilla live did you us? Is it reproducible in the latest stable or even testing ones? e.g., 3.3.0-33 or 3.3.1-2: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
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p bea posted a comment on ticket #432
The fonts return to normal after the 'Start Clonezilla' message. Hope this helps pbea Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, 23 November 2025 at 06:54, Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I meant if you continue even after you have distorted fonts when choosing keyboard and language in the dialog menu, are the rest of fonts still distorted? If so, please take some photos and share that. Thanks. bugs:#432 Boot Failure Status: open Group: stable_clonezilla_live Created: Wed...
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I can't really. What it looks like is that grub redhat 8 is presenting the last option, a system setup selection, without presenting the actual OS kernels.Brian On Nov 23, 2025 12:11 AM, Steven Shiau <steven_shiau@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:"Using Clonezilla and live gets me a boot failure." -> Could you please take a photo about the messages on the screen? Thanks. redhat restore gives a system setup menu Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/...
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Thanks. That answers my question. And thanks for all your work on Clonez. I use it all the time.
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Or you can try to use a different USB stick. Sometimes it's hardware compatibility issue.
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Cristian STANESCU posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Try to turn off the "safe boot" option from BIOS (probably somewhere in "security options" or advanced, you may have to search for it a little).
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Advait posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Thanks. That answers my question. And thanks for all your work on Clonez. I use it all the time. On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sourceforge.net wrote: You can refer to this: https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/57_why_ubuntu_based_clonezilla_live.faq#57_why_ubuntu_based_clonezilla_live.faq What is the difference between clonezilla "stable" and "alternative stable"? https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/745ad4e396/?limit=25#9180...
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Norbert posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Hi Ceasar, I tried to boot GParted from a stick but failed. The message I get is "Missing operation system. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" To check the stick I tried a different computer and GParted boots from the stick without any problem. What can I do make the stick boot/start on the computer where it failed?
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Thanks for your feedback. The netcat from OpenBSD used to have an issue to receive data from stdin in the destination node when the opton "-N" is used. I am not sure if the issue has gone or is still there. So any reason you have to use netcat from OpenBSD? If so, which function you want to use with Clonezilla?
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Thanks for sharing that. So your issue was fixed, right?
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Thanks for your feedback. I believe the culprit is the double quotation mark in the model: sda disk 119.2G SAMSUNG SSD PM830 2.5" 7mm 128GB S0TYNSAD349831 Will try to fix this issue in the next testing release.
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BTW, related issue mentioned here: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/166
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Could you please boot Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33 on the machine, then run: 1. sudo su - 2. blkid 3. parted -s /dev/vda print (Assume your source disk is /dev/vda) 4. lsblk Please post the results of 2-4. BTW, please also give testing Clonezilla live a try, if you can: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
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You can refer to this: https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/57_why_ubuntu_based_clonezilla_live.faq#57_why_ubuntu_based_clonezilla_live.faq
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It really depends. There are many parameters which might have different impacts about the rate. In some cases multicast/broadcast mechanism might be faster. However, other cases the BT one might work better. You can refer to tihs if you are interested: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349100596_A_BitTorrent_Mechanism-Based_Solution_for_Massive_System_Deployment It only when you test you will know which one is better for you.
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OK, same as described here: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/166 Thanks for your feedback. We will test more here and try to fix it.
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So if you continue it after selecting language and keyboard, is the font size bigger? Like what has mentioned here? https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/166
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From the log files I still can not find why. I need more info. Please run: sudo parted -s /dev/sda print (Assuming your source disk is /dev/sda) Then post the results. Thanks.
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"Using Clonezilla and live gets me a boot failure." -> Could you please take a photo about the messages on the screen? Thanks.
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If you are very sure, you can use: sudo rm -rf /home/partimag/my-image
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I meant if you continue even after you have distorted fonts when choosing keyboard and language in the dialog menu, are the rest of fonts still distorted? If so, please take some photos and share that. Thanks.
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Provide support for netcat-openbsd
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"Box" is an unknown hard drive device... - partition labels are fine
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David Worrell posted a comment on discussion Help
Used diskpart to extend the filesystem. diskpart. select volume 0. extend filesystem.
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Ceasar Sun posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Hi Norbert, Q1: "use GParted to shrink the size of the image then restore " ? No, this mean to deal with the original disk , not the saved Clonezilla image. GParted don't support to shrink saved Clonezilla image. Q2: "enlarge the size of the original partion " ? More precise description is: To enlarger ( larger than source ) your destination partition (or disk) first ,then do partition (or disk) restoring. In tis way , you don't have to do adjust your source image . Teams Definitions: Source partition...
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Kylin Linux Advanced Server V10 SP3. lvm and xfs. clone disk over network. it fail to clone vda1(efi part). show "this is not partclone image" and vda3(xfs part) used size wrong. and i try use -q1 or --force-to-use-dd. is still use .vfat or .xfs etc. not .dd back to use 3.2.2-15, clone disk over network works fine,
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Hi Ceasar, thank you very much for your help and also for telling me which method is more save. Is it correct that I use GParted to shrink the size of the image and then try to restore the shrinked image to the original partition? Or is it better to enlarge the size of the original partion and then restore the image on this enlarged partition? Best regards Norbert
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What is the difference between clonezilla "stable" and "alternative stable"?
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I had an NVME 256G drive that I replaced with a 512G nvme drive. I cloned the 256g drive to an external usb 1.8Tb hard drive. I then replace the drives in my laptop and cloned the hard drive copy back to the new 512g drive.. Everything seem to have worked fine. Rebooted normally, etc. However, the windows explorer shows the 237.5 G but the disk manager show a 467.5 g NTFS partition. Any suggestions on how to make windows 11 recognize the addition space?
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I had an NVME 256G drive that I replaced with a 512G nvme drive. I cloned the 256g drive to an external usb 1.8Tb hard drive. I then replace the drives in my laptop and cloned the hard drive copy back to the new 512g drive.. Everything seem to have worked fine. Rebooted normally, etc. However, the windows explorer shows the 237.5 G but the disk manager show a 467.5 g NTFS partition. Any suggestions on how to make windows 11 recognize the addition space?
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Hi Norbert, Cloning to a smaller partition is not guaranteed; it depends on the block usage of the source partition. There are two possible approaches you can try: Use the same image — add the -rescue parameter in the advanced/extra options, then perform the restore. Create a new image with the same partition size — run disk defragmentation first, save it as a new image, then use the -rescue and -icds parameters when restoring this new image to the smaller partition. If you have the original disk,...
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Hi Norbert, Cloning to a smaller partition is not guaranteed; it depends on the block usage of the source partition. There are two possible approaches you can try: Use the same image — add the -rescue parameter in the advanced/extra options, then perform the restore. Create a new image with the same partition size — run disk defragmentation first, save it as a new image, then use the -rescue and -icds parameters when restoring this new image to the smaller partition. If you have the original disk,...
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Francois posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi, I have a question. We do deployment of devices on a large scale. We currently have a server which is capable of serving an image to 24 devices as a time through a 20Gbps line. We are experimenting with a new server which should be capable of running 48 devices through a 40Gpbs line. Each device has a 1Gbps connection to our production switch, so in theory there is a bottleneck at the 20/40Gpbs line. The systems are started one at a time so each system will be in a different part of the restore...
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Klein Doremn posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
Clonezilla Version: stable - 3.3.0-33, amd64 I've encountered an issue where the font is displayed very small (as shown in the first picture) during the initial setup stages where you select the language and keyboard layout. Despite this issue, if I continue the process, the font returns to normal size and displays correctly (as shown in the second picture). I confirmed that this problem occurs regardless of whether I choose the "with large font" option in the GRUB boot menu. This issue started happening...
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udance4ever modified a comment on discussion Clonezilla live
so great to hear you're working on this! I just tried to boot into questing again and when it starts logging to console, you can indeed see Clonzilla use a bigger font when it starts logging to console (0:22) for about 3 lines and then it falls back to the original tiny font (you can skip to 0:20 as it takes awhile): https://youtu.be/WhFrCC27pvQ?si=sWG3_kCNoolKFR0G
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so great to hear you're working on this! I just tried to boot into questing again and when it starts logging to console, you can indeed see Clonzilla use a bigger font (0:22) for about 3 lines and then it falls back to the original tiny font (you can skip to 0:20 as it takes awhile): https://youtu.be/WhFrCC27pvQ?si=sWG3_kCNoolKFR0G
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so great to hear you're working on this! I just tried to boot into questing again and when it starts logging to console, you can indeed Clonzilla use a bigger font (0:22) for about 3 lines and then it falls back to the original tiny font (you can skip to 0:20 as it takes awhile): https://youtu.be/WhFrCC27pvQ?si=sWG3_kCNoolKFR0G
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Hello. If I were you, I would look in the BIOS at the boot order settings! Maybe it would help to DELETE everything that shows up there and restart the computer (so that it will find the new UEFI entries; new = after clone restore). The cause/the idea: after the restore, you have a new machine, a new installation, with "new" UEFI entries!... In BIOS, the UEFI entries are not necessarily overwritten when you do a clone restore... and they are not identical! (as they probably should)
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Hello. If I were you, I would look in the BIOS at the boot order settings! Maybe it would help to DELETE everything that shows up there and restart the computer (so that it will find the new UEFI entries; new = after clone restore).
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I made a backup a few weeks ago of a red hat 8.10 physical machine, an HP Z2 workstation. I thought it went well till I tried to restore the backup. No matter what I do, if I try to restore the image I made I get a grub looking menu that instead of presenting a list of kernels, prompts for credentials. This is the piece I am unsure about, especially its cause. Using Clonezilla and live gets me a boot failure. If I use a restore disc I can get into the machine but all the grub 2 commands have failed...
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Photon posted a comment on discussion Clonezilla server edition
Hi Steven, I tested with 20251017-questing and the issue is still there. I attach the logs again.
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Guy Vered modified a comment on discussion Clonezilla server edition
Hello , i want to clean my image folder but im getting access denied. i tried rm -rf /home/partimag/my-image How can i delete image from the folder ? is it ok to use : sudo chmod 777 /home/partimag ? Thx
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Hello , i want to clean my image folder but im getting access denied. i tried rm -rf /home/partimag/my-image How can i delete image from the folder ?
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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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"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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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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