Clonezilla is incorrectly detecting partitions on a local-remote cloning attempt
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I'm trying to clone some HP Compaq 6515b laptops that I have runing Linux Mint.
I done this with a dozen laptops but now I tried to re-image at couple back to my original configuration after doing some experimental stuff and I ran into a problem.
When I run Clonezilla on the source machine everything is fine, and it sees 5 sda partitions sda1-sda5
Fine. Then I run Clonezilla on the target machine and use the command
ocs-onthefly -s 10.5.9.85 -t sda
Clonezilla on the target machine sees 27 sda partitions.....sda1-sda27.
Sda (80.0GB Hitachi_HTS54258.....etc)
sda1 (512B_CRDYSTUB (In_Hitachi_HTS542858.....)
....
sda15 (same as sda 1)
sda16 (67.5G_ext4 (In Hitachi....
sda17 (16M_KERN-A (In_Hitachi...
and variations of this to
sda27 (16M_vfat_EFI-SYSTEM....
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So what you are doing is to clone disk to disk over network? Not image restoring over network? If so, this is nothing to do with image which you have mentioned in the beginning.
Anyway, what's the command you ran in the destination machine?
Steven
I walked through all the steps for Clonzilla for Beginners, selected "local disk to remote disk" option, and DHCP networking option setup.
On source machine I selected the "sda" disk (only disk available).
On the target machine I chose "cancel" and went to "command line" (forget the exact wording).
sudo su -
ocs-onthefly -s 10.5.9.85 -t sda (10.5.9.85 is IP reported by source machine).
when source machine was preparing itself for the cloning it reported the basic 3 or 5 partitions....don't remember the exact number.
but when target machine started preparing itself, and "collecting information" it came up with 27 partitions.
This is weird. Did you see any message about new partition table is created in the destination disk?
Steven