Clonezilla On Dual Boot OSX systems
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Thank you guys for making this awesome program. I am running into a bit of an issue though.
The company that I work for has essentially 3 types of computers
Single Boot Windows Machines (Win10)
Dual Boot OSX machines (10.7 and 10.11)
Dual Boot Bootcamp Machines (OSX 10.11.6 and Win10)
None of our macs have the T2 chip if that matters.
The single boot windows machines have motherboards that support PXE booting and I have gotten clonezilla to work perfectly with them
The problem I am running in to is with the Mac Machines, specifically with savedisk.
In order to get the PXE boot I am booting into a clonezilla live USB or CD (Depending on the computer and running the software from there.
The first issue is that if I try to select the device and name in the client, the only disk that I am able to select is the clonezilla live USB itself. I got around that by setting the target disk to sda when I start clonezilla through dcs on the server. Not a big deal in and of iteself, just interesting and may be useful in troubleshooting.
The main issue is that when i run savedisk in beginner mode, the clone starts on sda3 on both the bootcamp machines and the dual boot osx machines. I know its the windows partition on the bootcamp machine because the cloner is reading the partitions as NTFS. On the dual boot machine, the second partition is the 10.11 partition so Im assuming that sda3/4 is the El capitan partition. Another interesting thing is that partclone seems to be copyuing another HFS+ partition after the bootcamp partition sda5, which doesnt really make sense to me.
I finally got savedisk to start its copy on sda1 by running clonezilla-start in advanced mode and setting the priorities to "dd only." However this is not ideal as the image seems to be taking much longer to save. As in 6 hours+. This certainly lowers its usability in deployment. I'm also not sure if the partition table will be able to be scaled down to smaller drives if necessary
I guess I have 2 main questions:
Is there a way to get clonezilla to copy these dual boot and bootcamp machines correctly without forcing dd? Partclone claims it is compatible with both NTFS and HFS+. I understand that the bootcamp computers might have more issues because of the 2 filesystems but the dual boot osx machines are all HFS+
If I save a disk using dd will I need to restore it using dd as well
Thank you in advance for the help and let me know if theres anything I should clarify
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? We have very few experience about dual boot Bootcamp Machines, therefore you have to help us to fix this issue if it's a bug. Please give the latest Clonezilla live a try, e.g., 2.6.0-37 or even 2.6.1-19:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Steven