Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
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Hi,
I have an HP DL360P server running W2K8 R2 OS on a 2x300GB HD with Raid-1 and i'm trying to create an image of this server, but I'm getting an error below. Does anyone run into this error? Please help. Thanks!
Checking the integrity of partition table in the disk /dev/sda...
the partition table in this disk is illegal/invalid: /dev/sda. it's not supported by parted. Parted is used in Clonezilla to parse the file system in the partition table. This partition table is detected as WRONG by parted.
The error message from parted are:
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
If you continue, something strange might happened (E.g. dd is used, not part or ntfsclone, to save the supported file system) and the image you saved will not be complete!
Are you sure you want to continue? (y/n) Y
very bad choice
Ok, let's do it
Reading the partition table for /dev/sda.. RETVAL=0
Unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sda.
Program terminated!!
Press "Enter" to continue.....
Last edit: Cuong 2013-07-13
Which version of Clonezilla did you use?
How about using Clonezilla live 2.1.2-20 a try first?
Steven.
I have seen that error when trying to restore a large partition to a smaller one.
It sounds like parted is getting confused by the broken partition table and throwing the wrong error.
Is the partition table really wrong? Or is parted incorrectly thinking it is wrong, which is then perhaps triggering a 2nd bug which is throwing the wrong error?
Maybe partition table is really wrong, maybe it's false alarm... Both are possible.
Steven.