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Nick P
2009-02-01
2013-04-05
  • Nick P

    Nick P - 2009-02-01

    While I was running CloneZilla and I got to the end and save the backup I got an error message that says:

    "Error! No unmounted disk(s) are found."

    What do I do to fix this?

    I got to say that I have never backed up my computer before and I thought it would be hard but it was actually really easy when I used CloneZilla (other than the error message).

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2009-02-01

      Could you please run the following commands in Clonezilla live command line prompt:
      1. sudo su -
      2. mount
      3. cat /proc/partitions

      Steven.

       
      • Mark MacVicar

        Mark MacVicar - 2009-07-03

        I ran into this problem too, and was banging my head against it trying to figure out why it thought my disks were mounted when they weren't (sda1 was unmounted, sda2 was mounted).

        Then it came to me: in the Clonezilla menu, I had selected "savedisk", which saves entire hard disks, when I should have selected "saveparts", which clones partitions.

         
        • Steven Shiau

          Steven Shiau - 2009-07-03

          Mark,
          So did you mean you realized that ? Or you are still having a problem there ?

          Steven.

           
    • Nick P

      Nick P - 2009-02-01

      So do I have to run it in advanced mode to put in those commands?

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2009-02-06

        Not really. All you have to do is enter command line prompt to do that.

         
    • Andy Meier

      Andy Meier - 2009-07-21

      the thread is not solved!!!
      I ran into this problem also: it tell me, my disks were mounted when absolutely no disc was mounted at all...
      So what is the solution then??????????????????/

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2009-07-21

        Andy,
        Which version of Clonezilla live did you use ?
        The steps you have done are ?
        Please give more details so it's easier for us to figure it out.

        Steven.

         
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-01-06

    Hi Steven,

    I hope it's OK when i continue this thread. I'm the next one who ran into this problem. If i see it right andyviii never answered your questions. If it's OK I want to do it:

    1) Version of Clonezilla
    I used "clonezilla-live-20091230-karmic.zip" because my target is  to use it on a brand new HP Netbook and I was unsure if the Debian kernel supports all Chipsets on that machine. First i wanted to try clonezilla on my desktop-pc and this is where my problems started :-/.

    2) The steps i have done / more details
    I want to boot from the first partition of an external USB harddisk. The images should go to the second partition on this disk. Here you see the "fdisk -l" command executed from the booted clonezilla:

    Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x0002a5d0
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdb1   *           1          51      409626    b  W95 FAT32 <- Boot Drive Clonezilla
    /dev/sdb2              52       38913   312159015    b  W95 FAT32 <- Here I want to Save Images
    

    Here you see how "fdisk -l" from clonezilla sees my internal harddisk:

    Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x25a7f2c0
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *           1        3039    24410736    7  HPFS/NTFS  <- 1. Image i want to save
    /dev/sda3            3045        6083    24410767+  83  Linux <- 2. Image i want to save
    /dev/sda4            6084       30401   195334335    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/sda5            6084        6114      248976   82  Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda6            6115       30401   195085296    7  HPFS/NTFS <- 3. Image (Data Partition)
    

    - And here is a step by step report what i do when i fire up from clonezilla from the external drive:
    1) On the Bootprompt i use "Clonezilla live (Default settings, VGA 1024 x 768)"
    2) Choose "en_US.UTF-8 English" als my Language
    3) Choose "Select keymap from full list" and then "pc / quertz / German / Standard / latin1-no dead keys"
    4) "Start Clonezilla"
    5) Use option "device-image"
    6) Use option "local_dev"
    7) Clonezilla shows me my sdb2 partition and i choose it as my /home/partimag
    8) I want to save to "/Top_directory_in_the_local_device"
    9) Clonezilla gives me a list  of file system spaces. There is no sda drive listed
    10) I choose "Beginner"
    11) and "saveparts" option
    12) I accept the automatic generated name for the image and then
    13) "Error! No unmounted partition(s) are found! To use Clonezilla to save or clone a partition, the source partition must be unmounted. Press Enter to exit…"

    When I'm back at the shell i collected the 2 following outputs:

    Output of "mount"
    =================
    aufs on / type aufs (rw)
    none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
    none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
    udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
    /dev/sdb1 on /live/image type vfat (rw)
    tmpfs on /live/cow type tmpfs (rw)
    tmpfs on /live type tmpfs (rw)
    none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
    none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
    none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
    none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
    none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
    tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
    none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
    none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
    none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
    Output of "cat /proc/partitions"
    ================================
    major minor  #blocks  name
       7        0     103116 loop0
       8        0  244198584 sda
     252        0  244197815 dm-0
     252        1   24410736 dm-1
     252        2   24410767 dm-2
     252        3     248976 dm-3
     252        4  195085296 dm-4
       8       16  312571224 sdb
       8       17     409626 sdb1
       8       18  312159015 sdb2
    

    What details do you need more? Can you help me?

    Thank you

    Ferdi

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2010-01-07

    This is very weird… you mentioned about sda5, sda6, but in the file /proc/partitions, there is no sda5, sda6…  no idea why…
    How about the results of
    parted -s /dev/sda print

    Steven.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-01-07

    Hi Steven,

    perhaps you're on the right track. When i get back to the shell after i get the error message i am a normal user. When i send the "parted -s /dev/sda print" command i get

    Error: Error opening /dev/sda: Permission denied
    

    When i become root i get:

    Model: ATA HDS722525VLSA80 (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: msdos
    Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
     1      32.3kB  25.0GB  25.0GB  primary   ntfs            boot
     3      25.0GB  50.0GB  25.0GB  primary   ext3
     4      50.0GB  250GB   200GB   extended                  lba
     5      50.0GB  50.3GB  255MB   logical   linux-swap(v1)  swap
     6      50.3GB  250GB   200GB   logical   ntfs
    

    Ferdi

     
  • Alexandre Rossi

    Alexandre Rossi - 2010-03-31

    Hello folks,
    I had the same problem with a Acer Aspire One netbook, I'm using clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28, the message "Error! No unmounted disk(s) are found…", I tried change in BIOS setup the SATA Mode: IDE to AHCI. In SATA Mode: AHCI, Clonezilla sucessly created an image of my netbook.
    Try change the SATA Mode to AHCI option.
    Alexandre Rossi.

     

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