I need to image my Intel Hardware Raid 1 for a backup before I install Kubuntu alongside Windows XP in a dual boot configuration. I chose the Ubuntu Trusty version of Clonezilla because when I tested prospective operating systems to install, Kubuntu live recognized my RAID 1 as a single drive, and Debian Live saw it as two different drives. But I find that both your Debian and Ubuntu versions of Clonezilla recognize my RAID 1 as two different drives. Is there a way to get Clonezilla to image my RAID 1 as single drive? Or will I have to image both drives separately?
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"hardware RAID by Intel. It is an 82801ER SATA RAID Controller" -> Do you know the device name on GNU/Linux?
You can boot Clonezilla live, then run:
1. cat /proc/partitions
2. sudo blkid
Then post the results.
Steven.
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I booted latest Clonezilla Live from a flash drive. I sent the output of those commands to a file on that flash drive. Then I booted Windows and found the files, and the directory I created to put them in, were not there. I need to know how to make those files persist on the flash drive so I can copy and past them into this thread.
In Windows I created a directory on the flash drive to put the command outputs in. But the Debian shell did not see this directory.
The cat /proc/partitions seemed to show that Clonezilla's Debian shell did recognize the RAID 1 volumes both as separate drives and their partitions and also a single drive and its partition. I could identify them by their partition sizes. Separately these were:
sdb
sdb1
and:
sdc
sdc1
Together as RAID 1 they seemed to be:
dm-0
dm-1
Where dm-0 appeared to be the drive and dm-1 a partition on dm-1. I could tell because not all of the RAID-1 drive pair is partitioned. The block sizes are consistent with what I know the capacity of the drive is, and the size of the one partition on it is. I plan to use the unpartitioned disk space for a Linux installation, either Debian or Ubuntu.
Attempts to mount dm-1 so I could put the output of those commands on it failed. What I got instead was the mount command's help output.
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I need to image my Intel Hardware Raid 1 for a backup before I install Kubuntu alongside Windows XP in a dual boot configuration. I chose the Ubuntu Trusty version of Clonezilla because when I tested prospective operating systems to install, Kubuntu live recognized my RAID 1 as a single drive, and Debian Live saw it as two different drives. But I find that both your Debian and Ubuntu versions of Clonezilla recognize my RAID 1 as two different drives. Is there a way to get Clonezilla to image my RAID 1 as single drive? Or will I have to image both drives separately?
For RAID 1, you can refer to:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/95_workaround_for_RAID_1.faq#95_workaround_for_RAID_1.faq
BTW, which version of Kubuntu did you mean? The version of Linux kernel is?
Steven.
The iso filename is: kubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
This was downloaded from http://www.kubuntu.org/ .
The filename shows it was version 14.04.1.
According to this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2213398
The Linux kernel version is 3.13.0-17
I see today a later version of Kubuntu was released two days ago.
The person who started that thread has software RAID. I have hardware RAID by Intel. It is an 82801ER SATA RAID Controller.
Last edit: Artist 2014-08-10
"hardware RAID by Intel. It is an 82801ER SATA RAID Controller" -> Do you know the device name on GNU/Linux?
You can boot Clonezilla live, then run:
1. cat /proc/partitions
2. sudo blkid
Then post the results.
Steven.
I booted latest Clonezilla Live from a flash drive. I sent the output of those commands to a file on that flash drive. Then I booted Windows and found the files, and the directory I created to put them in, were not there. I need to know how to make those files persist on the flash drive so I can copy and past them into this thread.
In Windows I created a directory on the flash drive to put the command outputs in. But the Debian shell did not see this directory.
The cat /proc/partitions seemed to show that Clonezilla's Debian shell did recognize the RAID 1 volumes both as separate drives and their partitions and also a single drive and its partition. I could identify them by their partition sizes. Separately these were:
sdb
sdb1
and:
sdc
sdc1
Together as RAID 1 they seemed to be:
dm-0
dm-1
Where dm-0 appeared to be the drive and dm-1 a partition on dm-1. I could tell because not all of the RAID-1 drive pair is partitioned. The block sizes are consistent with what I know the capacity of the drive is, and the size of the one partition on it is. I plan to use the unpartitioned disk space for a Linux installation, either Debian or Ubuntu.
Attempts to mount dm-1 so I could put the output of those commands on it failed. What I got instead was the mount command's help output.
I believe this is software RAID, and it's not well supported by Clonezilla actually.
Steven.