Don't clone encrypted swap data
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#400 Don't clone encrypted swap data
I haven't used Clonezilla with an UNencrypted swap partition for long, but AFAIR it would notice it was swap and then would not clone the garbage data in it, but only save the information for being able to recreate the swap partition.
Now that Clonezilla is able to open LUKS partitions, I would have assumed that if it notices it contains a swap, it would save the effort of cloning GBs of useless garbage, unfortunately, it does not, and saves it all... with dd...
Last edit: Dupuis 2023-01-19
Sure. We should improve this. Thanks for asking.
Steven
Please give Clonezilla live 3.0.3-20 or 20230127-* a try:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
They are improved to address this issue.
Steven