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"Failed to find the disk size on this machine." during partition creation [using nvme disk as destination]

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Marcin Słomka

Created: 2015-11-09

Updated: 2016-01-20

Marcin Słomka - 2015-11-09

Hi,

i got error trying to clone from SSD SATA drive to SSD NVMe drive.
The target drive is recognized as nvme0n1.

Seems Clonezilla uses wrong drive name: nvmen, but i suppose it should be: nvme0n1.

Here is screenshot.
https://goo.gl/photos/1v4Tr551x7KE8oJv9

Any suggestions?

Regards

Last edit: Marcin Słomka 2015-11-10

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Steven Shiau - 2015-11-15

Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Did you use the latest stable Clonezilla live? Or even the testing one?
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

Steven.

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Marcin Słomka - 2015-11-15

I tried:
clonezilla-live-2.4.2-66-amd64
clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64
clonezilla-live-20151012-wily-amd64

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Steven Shiau - 2015-12-06

Thanks for reporting this.
OK, I thought it was for image restoring. Now I release it's for disk to disk cloning.
I need to find a NVMe device to test here.
Others have confirmed it's OK to restore an image to NVMe device, so before we fix this issue, you can save the image from your SSD device, then restore to the NVMe drive.

Steven.

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Steven Shiau - 2016-01-20

Finally we found a machine supporting NVME and we borrowed 2 NVME hard drives to test here. Now Clonezilla has been improved to support NVME disks cloning.
Please give Clonezilla live >= 2.4.5-15 or 20160120-* a try:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Please let us know the results.
BTW, NVME hard drive is really amazing. We got the incredible rate when cloning:
60.65GB/min

Awesome!

Run partclone: partclone.ext4 -z 10485760 -L /var/log/partclone.log -b -s /dev/nvme0n1p3 -O /dev/nvme1n1p3
Partclone v0.2.87 http://partclone.org
Starting to back up device(/dev/nvme0n1p3) to device(/dev/nvme1n1p3)
Elapsed: 00:00:11, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:11, 100.00% completed!
done!
File system: EXTFS
Device size: 1.2 TB = 291903232 Blocks
Space in use: 76.8 GB = 18757206 Blocks
Free Space: 1.1 TB = 273146026 Blocks
Block size: 4096 Byte
Elapsed: 00:01:16, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%, Rate: 60.65GB/min,
current block: 291510810, total block: 291903232, Complete: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:01:16, Ave. Rate: 60.7GB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncing... OK!
Partclone successfully cloned the device (/dev/nvme0n1p3) to the device (/dev/nvme1n1p3)
Cloned successfully.

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