"Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone software similar to Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla, you can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes."
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You'd better to convert the image to iso then burn it on CD/DVD. As mentioned here: http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/#Advanced_mode
Therefore you can boot the CD to restore the image.
If you mean you just want to put the image to CD, yes, sure you can. But the CD won't be bootable if you just use normal burning tool, like K3B, to drag the files and burn it.
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"It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla"
Is that true ? On my fedora 5, had 120 GB of data, but the clonezilla image copied 250GB (full size of HDD)
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Well, maybe Clonezilla can not identify your file system in partition, so it uses dd to dump the whole data.
Please:
1. Boot clonezilla live
2. Enter command, run "sudo su -" to become root
3. cat /proc/partitions
4. fdisk -l /dev/sda (replace /dev/sda with yours, got from step 3).
5. parted -s /dev/sda print (replace /dev/sda with yours, got from step 3).
Please post the results of 3, 4 and 5.
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Well, man, I saw your another post (https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5880505) that you choose to use "dd" to dump the image ? Or it's decided by Clonezilla ?
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Backupt,
What did you mean by "decided by Clonezilla option 2" ?
BTW, could you show the content of your clonezilla image by running something like:
ls -alFh /home/partimag/$IMAGENAME (replace $IMAGENAME with yours)
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can i backup more than 5 gb partitions?
Yes.
how can i do it?
i read everywhere that you can backup max. 5 GB.
How ? Just use clonezilla live to backup. Clonezilla also allows you to split the image.
BTW, where did you read such a limitation ?
can i burn the images directly to a dvd-rw?
sorry it was a example:
"Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone software similar to Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla, you can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes."
You'd better to convert the image to iso then burn it on CD/DVD. As mentioned here:
http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/#Advanced_mode
Therefore you can boot the CD to restore the image.
If you mean you just want to put the image to CD, yes, sure you can. But the CD won't be bootable if you just use normal burning tool, like K3B, to drag the files and burn it.
"It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla"
Is that true ? On my fedora 5, had 120 GB of data, but the clonezilla image copied 250GB (full size of HDD)
Well, maybe Clonezilla can not identify your file system in partition, so it uses dd to dump the whole data.
Please:
1. Boot clonezilla live
2. Enter command, run "sudo su -" to become root
3. cat /proc/partitions
4. fdisk -l /dev/sda (replace /dev/sda with yours, got from step 3).
5. parted -s /dev/sda print (replace /dev/sda with yours, got from step 3).
Please post the results of 3, 4 and 5.
Well, man, I saw your another post (https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5880505) that you choose to use "dd" to dump the image ? Or it's decided by Clonezilla ?
1. decided by Clonezilla option 2 !
2. It's lvm on fedora (core 10), which is causing the problem.
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM
parted -s /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD3200KS-75P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot
2 107MB 320GB 320GB primary lvm
Backupt,
What did you mean by "decided by Clonezilla option 2" ?
BTW, could you show the content of your clonezilla image by running something like:
ls -alFh /home/partimag/$IMAGENAME (replace $IMAGENAME with yours)