restoreparts -f parameter

[Lex24]

I have recently decided to run Clonezilla restoreparts in interactive mode (just to double-check the default parameters) and the command line generated at the end of the process included -f switch. It apparently converts the existing image to some temporary file. I can't find any information about this parameter in the documentation.

:: restoring Ntfs partition
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -e1 auto -e2 -c -t -r -j2 -k -p true -f sda1  restoreparts ask_user sda1

:: restoring Ext4 partition
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -e2 -c -t -r -j2 -k -p true -f sdb12  restoreparts ask_user sdb12

The message shown is as follows:

 Creating a tmp Clonezilla image "imagename-tmp-cnvted" based on the image "imagename" so that we can restore the image imagename (was saved from sdb) to sdb ...

I have always run those commands without -f sda1 or -f sdb12 and never had any problems.

I'm using "Clonezilla-live-20141215-utopic-amd64", an older version which works perfectly on my hardware.

The saveparts commands are as follows:

:: Ntfs
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -rm-win-swap-hib -z1p -i 2048000 -p true saveparts imagename sda1

:: Ext4
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -z1p -i 2048000 -fsck-src-part-y -p true saveparts imagename sdb12

[Steven Shiau]

" It apparently converts the existing image to some temporary file." -> So you need the command about this? If so, run:
create-ocs-tmp-img --help

Steven