Need help with detecting partitions under LVM disks during clonezilla..
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I have a server that is having the LVM partition layout as below.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 8G 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 20G 0 part /clonezilla
├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda4 8:4 0 512B 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 902.5G 0 part
├─vg00-swapvol 253:0 0 5G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─vg00-localmntvol 253:1 0 40G 0 lvm /local/mnt
├─vg00-vm1vda 253:2 0 100G 0 lvm
│ ├─vg00-vm1vda1 253:10 0 1G 0 part
│ ├─vg00-vm1vda2 253:11 0 512M 0 part
│ └─vg00-vm1vda3 253:12 0 98.5G 0 part
│ ├─icevg00-swapvol 253:13 0 5G 0 lvm
│ ├─icevg00-shared 253:14 0 13.5G 0 lvm
│ ├─icevg00-localmntvol 253:15 0 40G 0 lvm
│ ├─icevg00-varvol 253:16 0 10G 0 lvm
│ └─icevg00-slashvol 253:17 0 30G 0 lvm
├─vg00-vm0vda 253:3 0 80G 0 lvm
│ ├─vg00-vm0vda1 253:7 0 79.9G 0 part
│ ├─vg00-vm0vda14 253:8 0 4M 0 part
│ └─vg00-vm0vda15 253:9 0 106M 0 part
├─vg00-varvol 253:4 0 10G 0 lvm /var
├─vg00-shared 253:5 0 100G 0 lvm /local/shared
└─vg00-slashvol 253:6 0 30G 0 lvm /
When I try to create an image of the server using clonezilla, I see that vg00-vm0vda & vg00-vm1vda are considered as disks and partclone uses partclone.dd for them by default. Is there anyway, we can tell partclone / clonezilla to probe the disks and backup the underlying partitions?
Hello - May I know if you have been able to review this query?
Somehow your 1st post was not notified... Or maybe we missed that.
Please run it using the latest stable Clonezilla live, i.e., 3.2.0-5:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
If the issue remains, please share us the log file /var/log/clonezilla.log.
In addition, please enter the command line, then run:
0. sudo -i
1. cat /proc/partitions
2. blkid
3. lsblk
Please share the results of 1-3.
Thanks.
Steven
Here is the output from the 3 commands you have requested and also the clonezilla.log
vm1vda & vm0vda are the lvm disks that I was referring to having underlying partitions.
Please let me know if you need any more information regarding the same.
May I know if Clonezilla live, i.e., 3.2.0-5 has any fixes for this to identify underlying partitions of LVM disks?
Apparently, from the results of "blkid", you can see the file system was not detected for
/dev/vg00/vm0vda and /dev/vg00/vm1vda. That's why we use "partclone.dd" to save them.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? I suggest you give the latest one, i.e., 3.2.0-5, a try.
Steven
Hi Steven, would 3.2.0-5 have the capability to detect the LVM and probe the underlying partitions to use partclone?
Not sure, did you try that?
Or even the testing one, i.e., 3.2.1-5?
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Steven