When Cloning, Should Drives be UnMounted Prior to Poweroff
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I use Clonezilla from CD.
When you select the Source / Destination Drives I "assume" Clonezilla mounts them at that point or shortly thereafter. However, when clone completed one has four choices of which I normally choose "Poweroff".
Again I make the assumption that Clonezilla has "UnMounted" the drives to reach "Poweroff".
However, I read somewhere it is best to go to "cmd" and "unmount" the drives prior to "poweroff".
Question: Should Drives be UnMounted Prior to Poweroff?
The poweroff procedure in Clonezilla live will unmount all mounted file systems automatically.
Steven
Steven:
Thanks for responding and confiming this for me.
Followup:
Know of any Clonezilla docs regarding cloning? Of particular interest is prompt:
with statement "Repair Source" and what that actually means -- e.g a form of chkdsk /r ..
David
'with statement "Repair Source" and what that actually means -- e.g a form of chkdsk /r ..' -> No docs for that. However, I believe you can google and find that.
Steven
Steven:
Thanks for the followup -- but -- not much help for us beginners.
1) Appears a lot of misinformation on web regarding what is "Cloning" versus what is "Imaging".
Found a number of web pages that said they would discuss Clonezilla Beginner Cloning,
However after reading their articles, they were confused and actually discussed Imaging Not Cloning.
Did find a PDF "Clonezilla Live Quick Reference Card - Expert Mode" which referred to "Repair Souce" which "mplied" the file system on the Source Drive was repaired (which makes sense) but No Mention on how this was being done.
2) I also would be interested in knowing the difference between "Clonezilla LIve" and "whatever other Clonezillas there are" ?
This really depends on what you meant in "repair source". Did you mean to fix the boot loader? If so, actually Clonezilla is not for that. It's for imaging or cloning.
As for Clonezilla live, basically it's a live system which you can boot and use it with Clonezilla program. Of course you can install Clonezilla on your Debian or Ubuntu system. Then it's not a live system. For Linux live system, please refer to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
Steven
Steven:
RE: what you meant in "repair source"
What I'm hoping is going on in regard to 'Cloning with Repair Source" Is:
As Clonezilla is copying from one hard disk to another, that if it encounters something wrong with
the file system (NTFS in this case), that those errors (file table, bad block, bad bytes, whatever) are corrected "ON" the Source disk PRIOR to being copied to the Destination Disk. I'm guessing the only way to do this is for Clonezilla to compare the current and backup table on the disk to see if they are congruent, and if NOT then over write the current with the backup.
I see you specifically EXCLUDED the boot loader partition on the Source disk to be copied, so assuming the boot loader partition is NOT part of the NTFS file system.
Re: Live.
Thanks for the link. Always referred to them as "bootable media", so will try and get with the right nomenclature..
David
Clonezilla just copies used blocks for you, and of course you can use some tools to check the file system integrity before cloning or imaging the file system. However, there is no good tool to fix NTFS file system on GNU/Linux, hence if your goal is to use for MS Windows, no, it won't fix that for you. You need to use MS Windows and the tools on it to fix the NTFS file system. Clonezilla live is based on GNU/Linux so...
Steven
Steven:
Thanks. Last response helps clear up a few things.
I use Clonezilla for both Windows and Linux.
With Windows I run chkdsk /r prior to cloning.
However had a sitiuation where I had corrupted backups.
So was hoping Clonezilla would be that FINAL check / repair so this did Not occur again.
Appreciate all your efforts my behalf.
David