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cdp
2009-09-08
2013-04-05
  • cdp

    cdp - 2009-09-08

    I think Clonezilla is recognizing my target drive as the wrong size.

    I created an image of a 60 GB partition on a physical Win 7 machine and am trying to restore it to a win 7 VM, 136 GB partition. I'm using MS VPC 2007.
    Am using the instrucitons here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-clonezilla/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw100Clonezilla&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grlnxw100

    I have one drive mounted, setup with the image and the other (target) drive is formatted, 136 GB dynamically sizing disk.
    Clonezilla finds my image but when I go to restore, says the target drive is too small. 

    The message is that:
    The target disk (size= 266236320 sectors) is smaller than the source disk of 488397168 sectors ...

    I understand that it can't restore to a smaller partition, but the target partition is larger. I've created it several times, with Fdisk and the VM's disk wizard with out any luck.

    Please help.

    Thx.

    Chris.

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2009-09-09

      Which version of Clonezilla live are you using?
      Not sure this is a bug of partclone or not. Maybe you can enter expert mode, choose "-q" (i.e. to use partimage instead of partclone) to clone it.

      Steven.

       
    • cdp

      cdp - 2009-09-09

      Hi Steven,

      I've used both clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26 and clonezilla-live-1.2.3-1.

      The image is created with -q.

      When I used fdisk to create the partition, even it recognizes the target as 136 GB.

      Chris.

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2009-09-09

        Are you sure the image was created with "-q" ?
        Could you please run:
        ls -alFh /home/partimag/IMAGENAME (replease IMAGENAME with your image name)
        then post the results?

        Steven.

         
    • cdp

      cdp - 2009-09-09

      Steven,

      Yes I'm sure. I took 2 images and followed the instructions to the t. -q was one I distincly remember.
      I logged in, mounted /home/partimag and ran that command.
      It comes back with a directory listing of /home/partimage/2009-09-08-15-img/ Most of the files start with sda2.ntfs-img.
      Unfortunately I can't "copy" it to clipboard but I can take a screenshot. Is there somewhere I can email it or a way to attach?
      (I tried the mouse button click and selecting the text but for some reason can't copy it, clipboard is set to be shared in MSVPC)

      Chris.

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2009-09-10

        You can email me at <steven _at_ nchc org tw>.

        Steven.

         

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