New Clonezilla breaks saving on flash drive ?

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New Clonezilla breaks saving on flash drive ?

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Gary Czychi

Created: 2014-09-04

Updated: 2014-09-19

Gary Czychi - 2014-09-04

Hi,

I have just overwritten my old Clonezilla installation (clonezilla-live-20110721-natty) with the latest stable one and found out that the way that the old version previously saved and restored images does not work anymore.

Before, when I chose «skip» to use the existing /home/partimag directory, the images where saved to and read from the flash drive (that was mounted to /home/partimag) on the Ramdisk (hope I got this correct).

Now, with the latest Clonezilla version I get a no space error at 2% of the copy process. :-(
I cannot save the image to the flash drive anymore, it is not mounted to the /home/partimag directory.

Is this known and is there an easy workaround? I noticed (after exploring the directory structure) that the flash drive is still there, albeit in directory /lib/live/mount/medium and without the /home/partimag that was there in the old version.

What should I do? When I don't use network backups over ssh, I'd like to save my images on the flash drive. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Gary

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Gary Czychi - 2014-09-04

I just found out the the /lib/live/mount directory (the flash drive) is read-only; I couldn't even use it as a path in Clonezilla…

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Steven Shiau - 2014-09-05

The reason is because the boot media should not be mounted again as read-write mode, otherwise when rebooting, due to the squashfsfs are mounted, it can not be unmounted. Then there is a risk that the file system might crash.
The solution is, you can enter the 2nd one in the boot menu:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-01-b-sub-boot-menu.png
and choose the "To RAM" one.
Then when choosing mounting image repository, choose "local_dev":
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-07-img-repo.png
and choose your USB flash drive as image repository.

Steven.

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Gary Czychi - 2014-09-06

Thanks for the clarification! Why use the SquashFS in the first place? In a normal environment there's no need to compress the file system because there is plenty of space (at least for these purposes).

Is there an easy way to mount the USB file system as rw in the first place?

Thanks a lot for your answers!

Gary

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Steven Shiau - 2014-09-19

Squashfs is for the live root file system. It's a must for Clonezilla "live" system.
The method mentioned above is the easiest and safest way.

Steven.

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