extfsclone.c:bitmap free count err
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Hi guys
I use Linux (Lubuntu ) and i install Lubuntu on my 128GB SSD , I have an external hard drive 300GB (ntfs).
I tried Clonezilla to make a backup for the whole disk , also i tried to to make a backup for a partition , and i want to save the backup on the external hard drive, i got this error many times i tried to make a backup ! the error message in /var/log/partclone.log is :
"we need memory 3456716 bytes , image head 4160, bitmap 3448456, crc 4100 bytes , calculating bitmap..please wait..extfsclone.c:bitmap free count err, free:25457320 ? any idea ! i tried to "to use the full hard drive backup" and "save partition as image"
any idea ?
I believe this is due to your ext3/ext4 file system was not unmounted cleanly. Choose "-fsck-src-part-y" when you saving an image:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-10-check-source-fs.png
Steven.
Hi Steven,
I got the same error when I use clonezilla to clone the source openSUSE disk to remote disk, and my clonezilla is the newest version: clonezilla-live-20160210-wily-amd64, I was about to use '-fsck-src-part-y' option to solve this problem, but I got blocked by '-i used with no filenames on the command line, reading from STDIN', I tried to input some arguements with enter, but still blocked here, I do not know how to continue, can you tell how to debug with it? please help me if possirble, THANKS!
Bing.
I'm also having this problem on a Toshiba Satellite P70 with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD.
At the point where it's beginning it says this and then fails;
Clonezilla calculating bitmap extfsclone.c:bitmap free count err, free: 14284916
Steven what do you mean the ext3/ext4 file system was not unmounted cleanly, in clonezilla it's not unmounting it clean?
Is this just a clonezilla bug or lack of hardware support or a file system problem on the hard drive?
I'm attaching the output of 'lspci -vv' & 'lshw' if this helps for you to see my actual hardware to help determine this...
Thanks...
Need to make another reply because you can only add one attachment at a time, so now I'm attaching the lspci...
Thanks again...
Hi I'm back...
I looked at this like this is a filesystem error on the hard drive and fsck was the solution, so I ran fsck on my drive and it came back clean and then clonezilla worked, so I just assumed that was the issue.
15 minutes later I went back and tried to make another back, same system, same everything, I just forgot to make sure I had it clean the way I wanted it before making the backup so I went back to do another image.
This time clonezilla failed again after my fsck came back clean. So I used this time around the fsck-src-part-y option and it worked.
Now I'll be interested to see that once I've used this option it's going to continue to work. I ran fsck on a livecd so this should of worked...
I think there's a bug here with clonezilla because I was recently using this SSD I have in another laptop with a different version of clonezilla without any issues.
This Toshiba P70 is a new generation laptop and my SSD is a Samsung 840 Pro 128GB that's only a few months old.
My gut feeling is my hardware is very new generation and clonezilla is simply having problems with it.
I hope this will be resolved in a new realease, because I'm 99.9% sure my SSD is just fine...
THANKS
This kind of error messages is not hardware issue, and it's software issue.
Maybe this is due to file system version difference, or bugs.
If you have a chance, next time please backup important data and use the testing Clonezilla live. Normally it comes with newer Linux kernel and file system utility programs, so it might help.
Steven