I just used Clonezilla to clone my 500 Gig hard drive to a new 2 TB one. I followed the tutorials for cloning an entire drive, selected "Advanced" and chose the -k1 option to utilize the full capacity of the new drive. I DID select "copy the boot loader." Everything went normally except that CZ refused to clone one partition -- /dev/sda5, the logical partition containing my Ubuntu 16.04 root directory, mount point /. It cloned the other logical partitions (/home and /swap) without complaint. The problem with /dev/sda5 was that the filesystem had been mounted 36 times without being checked. I re-ran Clonezilla and this time, cloned only the one partition and selected fsck -y in the option menu. It ran successfully. However, when I select the new disk in the BIOS boot menu, it will not boot. It gives the "loading operating system..." message and then hangs with the cursor blinking.
The old, source partition (which now is called /dev/sdb5 in GParted) boots, but there is one funny problem -- it mounts the cloned /home and /swap partitions from the new drive! Otherwise, everything looks like it should work, all the partitions are there on both drives.
Please help!
TIA
Dave
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Hello All,
I just used Clonezilla to clone my 500 Gig hard drive to a new 2 TB one. I followed the tutorials for cloning an entire drive, selected "Advanced" and chose the -k1 option to utilize the full capacity of the new drive. I DID select "copy the boot loader." Everything went normally except that CZ refused to clone one partition -- /dev/sda5, the logical partition containing my Ubuntu 16.04 root directory, mount point /. It cloned the other logical partitions (/home and /swap) without complaint. The problem with /dev/sda5 was that the filesystem had been mounted 36 times without being checked. I re-ran Clonezilla and this time, cloned only the one partition and selected fsck -y in the option menu. It ran successfully. However, when I select the new disk in the BIOS boot menu, it will not boot. It gives the "loading operating system..." message and then hangs with the cursor blinking.
The old, source partition (which now is called /dev/sdb5 in GParted) boots, but there is one funny problem -- it mounts the cloned /home and /swap partitions from the new drive! Otherwise, everything looks like it should work, all the partitions are there on both drives.
Please help!
TIA
Dave