I've been using clonezilla for about 2 months now, and am very happy with it except for this error... Any time I try to push a clone image down to a computer with a hard drive of a different size, it ROYALLY screws up the hard drive. I get failure messages saying that the partition is outside of the disk. The drive is now unusable until I reformat it by either connecting the drive to another computer and reformatting, or using GParted (which rocks!).
I have tried using the -r switch to resize the file system and have tried it without, neither work... It's happened to me 3x with different computers and hds from different manufacturers. It appears however to be related to the size of the hard drive.
Also, the size of the image itself is not too big for the new hard drive. I'm talking about 15gb imgs going to 30 and 100gb hard drives. should be no problem...
Anyone else seen this?
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So you mean if you clone without -r, it worked or not ?
When you mentioned the image is 15 GB, did you mean the partition size is 15 GB or the compressed image file ? What it matters is the partition size, not the image size.
Most of the cases about this problem is different harddrive may have different CHS values, and the sfdisk maybe fail to create that. One workaround is you can try to create a partition table in the target disk before you clone, and when you use clonezilla to clone it, check "-k" (not run sfdisk again) and "-r" (to resize). Maybe this will work. This is shown in the FAQ http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=26_resize.faq
Please share more info with us if you have any progress about this.
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I've been using clonezilla for about 2 months now, and am very happy with it except for this error... Any time I try to push a clone image down to a computer with a hard drive of a different size, it ROYALLY screws up the hard drive. I get failure messages saying that the partition is outside of the disk. The drive is now unusable until I reformat it by either connecting the drive to another computer and reformatting, or using GParted (which rocks!).
I have tried using the -r switch to resize the file system and have tried it without, neither work... It's happened to me 3x with different computers and hds from different manufacturers. It appears however to be related to the size of the hard drive.
Also, the size of the image itself is not too big for the new hard drive. I'm talking about 15gb imgs going to 30 and 100gb hard drives. should be no problem...
Anyone else seen this?
So you mean if you clone without -r, it worked or not ?
When you mentioned the image is 15 GB, did you mean the partition size is 15 GB or the compressed image file ? What it matters is the partition size, not the image size.
Most of the cases about this problem is different harddrive may have different CHS values, and the sfdisk maybe fail to create that. One workaround is you can try to create a partition table in the target disk before you clone, and when you use clonezilla to clone it, check "-k" (not run sfdisk again) and "-r" (to resize). Maybe this will work. This is shown in the FAQ http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=26_resize.faq
Please share more info with us if you have any progress about this.