Clonezilla-Live not working with Kubuntu
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Hello,
At the moment, I am trying to clone a partition with Kubuntu on it. I'm trying to move the image to a different partition on the same hard drive. Afterwards, when I want to, I'm trying to recover the image and place the image on its original partition.
At the moment, I have been unsuccessful at doing this. I don't know why, but for some odd reason, I am not able to correctly compress and transfer the image to a different partition. If Kubuntu is installed on a hard drive, it uses about 1 gigabyte of information. The compression method used made the image about 150 megabytes. Now, either this is very good compression, or something is wrong.
I suspect something is wrong, because I am unable to reload the image onto its original partition.
The process has been like this:
Kubuntu = [hda1] (10 GB) (less than 2 GB used).
Free space for image = [hda3] (10 GB)
I used the graphical interface to save the image from hda1 to hda3. I looked at the image, and I was surprised by the compression. Maybe this is normal, but I do not know. I do not know, because I do not know about compression.
I tried copying some commands that I used for my Windows XP computer. Recently, I used Clonezilla-live to generate an image of my Windows XP computer. I did this with the command-line interface.
I mimicked what I saw here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1759263&forum_id=394751
However, I had to alter the code, because I was not using an NTFS partition for Kubuntu. I am using an EXT3 partition for Kubuntu.
I used the following commands to try and restore Kubuntu, but it did not work:
$ mount /dev/hda3 /home/partimag
$ -l en -p -reboot -k restoreparts 2007-07-10-00-img "hda1"
I tried changing -k with --no-create-partition.
However, that did not work.
When I used these commands, I was hoping for similar results that I had obtained with my Windows XP computer. For instance, this is what happened when I used my Windows XP computer:
1. image sda1 partition and save it on sda3
2. load image from sda3 and put onto sda1
*clonezilla-live formats partition, cleans it up, and uncompresses the image into an OS on sda3
However, when I am using it for Kubuntu, it seems that nothing was cleaned up, erased, or anything else.
How do I do partition imaging and restoring for one computer with Kubuntu?
Nevermind. I was able to solve this problem.
Thank you for such a great product!
How did you solve that ? Maybe you can share that with others.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/misc/98929-clonezilla-copying-restoring-partitions-same-hdd.html
Clonezilla: Copying and restoring partitions on the same HDD