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[Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Santiago B. <san...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
so.

I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
line but I'm having a strange problem.

When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
are two different processes.

I hope I had explained the problem clearly. Is there a way to avoid
this? To make clonezilla run just in one console?

May be this is caused because of the uncommon scenario in which I'm
running clonezilla, because I couldn't find much information about
this problem on the net.

I used clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31 for this test.

So I tried with clonezilla-live-1.2.3-15 and the ubuntu based, but
there I had another problem. The live-netdev="eth1" is apparently
ignored. While running the initrd the ipconfig command tries to
configure eth0 using dhcp and does never time out.

I hacked the live script inside the image a bit, to replace the DEVICE
variable with the value of live-netdev and with some other
modifications I could make it start, but the problem of the duplicated
clonezilla instances persist.

My main problem is this of the console redirection, but I would also
like to report the problem I found booting from eth1 if it isn't
known.

Thanks,

Santiago.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Certaing a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Michael,
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use to run that?
It's recommended to use the testing Clonezilla live, i.e. 1.2.3-15 or 
later... Since some of the packages were updated... Especially the 
program /opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live.

Steven.

Michael Mohr wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> Thanks for your reply :)
> 
> Using the command line that you provided (verbatim), I tried to remaster
> the ISO again.  It stopped with this error:
> 
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   aufs-modules-2.6-486: Depends: linux-latest-modules-2.6.30-2-486 but
> it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
> mv: cannot stat `debian-live/binary.iso': No such file or directory
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:29 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Michael Mohr wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.  I
>>> found the FAQ entry here informative, but ultimately it failed me:
>>>
>>> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq#46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq
>>>
>>> What I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to create an exact copy of
>>> 1.2.2-31 with the addition of a few custom packages.   I booted the
>>> 1.2.2-31 LiveCD in VMWare and partitioned the raw disk with a single
>>> partition, sda1.  I created reiserfs on it before proceeding with the
>>> steps documented in the FAQ above.
>>>
>>> Step 6 in the FAQ states that I should edit /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf and
>>> add my required dependencies to PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED, which
>>> I did.  I then edited /opt/drbl/setup/files/ocs/live-hook/ocs-live-hook
>>> and added a few lines near the end to install some custom-built debs
>>> from /live-hook-dir in the chroot.  So far, so good.
>>>
>>> Next I tried to build a new image, as documented:
>>>   create-debian-live -d lenny -i zmanda -l t
>>>
>>> This also worked, so I created the Clonezilla ISO from the debian-live
>>> ISO with ocs-iso.  Then I tried to boot the newly minted ISO image in
>>> another VMWare virtual machine, but this failed.  It looks like the
>>> package selection is completely different from the 1.2.2-31 release on
>>> sourceforge; for one thing, the kernel image is much older
>>> (2.6.26-2-486) and the boot fails early on in the initramfs (before the
>>> squashfs is mounted).
>>>   
>> It's because the deb repository
>> http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/pool/drbl/
>> changes sometimes...
>>
>> You can tune the the parameters of create-debian-live to make it. E.g.
>> /opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -d sid -m
>> http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian -s
>> http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security -g http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core
>>
>> Steven.
>>> Are there any documented solutions for building production versions of
>>> Clonezilla with a few minimal modifications?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] live cd help: user/pw and groups

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Carl Karsten wrote:
> I never got the sshd thing working like the clonezilla cd.  I have the
> squashfs mounted - what scripts set it up?
>   
Sorry, I do not get it. Could you please describe your question in 
details again?
> Also, about a year ago I figured out how to install cz using apt-get.
> pretty sure I posted about it, but can't find it.
>
> now I get:
>
> carl@gw42:/opt/drbl/sbin$ sudo ./clonezilla
> ./clonezilla: line 8: /opt/drbl//sbin/drbl-conf-functions: No such
> file or directory
> ./clonezilla: line 17: check_if_root: command not found
> ./clonezilla: line 112: ask_and_load_lang_set: command not found
> ./clonezilla: line 115: check_DIA_set_ESC: command not found
> Clonezilla mode is ./clonezilla: line 84: --backtitle: command not found
> ...^C
>
>
>   
This is weird... How did you install that by apt-get?

Steven.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>   
>> Carl.
>> Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that with us.
>> The method is different from what we have used (i.e. live-helper) to create
>> Clonezilla live, but some of the info are still very helpful.
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steven.
>>
>> Carl Karsten wrote:
>>     
>>> I am building a live cd and need it to accept ssh connections like the
>>> clonezilla one. I also need the user to be in the video group.
>>>
>>> Here are notes on what I have done so far:
>>> http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/livecd
>>>
>>> I can boot the CD, set a pw, add the user to video, restart X,
>>> everything seems to work.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Certaing a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31?

[Michael M. <mo...@zm...>]

Steven,

Thanks for your reply :)

Using the command line that you provided (verbatim), I tried to remaster
the ISO again.  It stopped with this error:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  aufs-modules-2.6-486: Depends: linux-latest-modules-2.6.30-2-486 but
it is not installable
E: Broken packages
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
mv: cannot stat `debian-live/binary.iso': No such file or directory

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:29 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
> 
> Michael Mohr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.  I
> > found the FAQ entry here informative, but ultimately it failed me:
> >
> > http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq#46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq
> >
> > What I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to create an exact copy of
> > 1.2.2-31 with the addition of a few custom packages.   I booted the
> > 1.2.2-31 LiveCD in VMWare and partitioned the raw disk with a single
> > partition, sda1.  I created reiserfs on it before proceeding with the
> > steps documented in the FAQ above.
> >
> > Step 6 in the FAQ states that I should edit /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf and
> > add my required dependencies to PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED, which
> > I did.  I then edited /opt/drbl/setup/files/ocs/live-hook/ocs-live-hook
> > and added a few lines near the end to install some custom-built debs
> > from /live-hook-dir in the chroot.  So far, so good.
> >
> > Next I tried to build a new image, as documented:
> >   create-debian-live -d lenny -i zmanda -l t
> >
> > This also worked, so I created the Clonezilla ISO from the debian-live
> > ISO with ocs-iso.  Then I tried to boot the newly minted ISO image in
> > another VMWare virtual machine, but this failed.  It looks like the
> > package selection is completely different from the 1.2.2-31 release on
> > sourceforge; for one thing, the kernel image is much older
> > (2.6.26-2-486) and the boot fails early on in the initramfs (before the
> > squashfs is mounted).
> >   
> It's because the deb repository
> http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/pool/drbl/
> changes sometimes...
> 
> You can tune the the parameters of create-debian-live to make it. E.g.
> /opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -d sid -m
> http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian -s
> http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security -g http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core
> 
> Steven.
> > Are there any documented solutions for building production versions of
> > Clonezilla with a few minimal modifications?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] live cd help: user/pw and groups

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

I never got the sshd thing working like the clonezilla cd.  I have the
squashfs mounted - what scripts set it up?

Also, about a year ago I figured out how to install cz using apt-get.
pretty sure I posted about it, but can't find it.

now I get:

carl@gw42:/opt/drbl/sbin$ sudo ./clonezilla
./clonezilla: line 8: /opt/drbl//sbin/drbl-conf-functions: No such
file or directory
./clonezilla: line 17: check_if_root: command not found
./clonezilla: line 112: ask_and_load_lang_set: command not found
./clonezilla: line 115: check_DIA_set_ESC: command not found
Clonezilla mode is ./clonezilla: line 84: --backtitle: command not found
...^C




On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
> Carl.
> Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that with us.
> The method is different from what we have used (i.e. live-helper) to create
> Clonezilla live, but some of the info are still very helpful.
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
> Steven.
>
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>>
>> I am building a live cd and need it to accept ssh connections like the
>> clonezilla one. I also need the user to be in the video group.
>>
>> Here are notes on what I have done so far:
>> http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/livecd
>>
>> I can boot the CD, set a pw, add the user to video, restart X,
>> everything seems to work.
>>
>>
>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Certaing a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Michael Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.  I
> found the FAQ entry here informative, but ultimately it failed me:
>
> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq#46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq
>
> What I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to create an exact copy of
> 1.2.2-31 with the addition of a few custom packages.   I booted the
> 1.2.2-31 LiveCD in VMWare and partitioned the raw disk with a single
> partition, sda1.  I created reiserfs on it before proceeding with the
> steps documented in the FAQ above.
>
> Step 6 in the FAQ states that I should edit /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf and
> add my required dependencies to PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED, which
> I did.  I then edited /opt/drbl/setup/files/ocs/live-hook/ocs-live-hook
> and added a few lines near the end to install some custom-built debs
> from /live-hook-dir in the chroot.  So far, so good.
>
> Next I tried to build a new image, as documented:
>   create-debian-live -d lenny -i zmanda -l t
>
> This also worked, so I created the Clonezilla ISO from the debian-live
> ISO with ocs-iso.  Then I tried to boot the newly minted ISO image in
> another VMWare virtual machine, but this failed.  It looks like the
> package selection is completely different from the 1.2.2-31 release on
> sourceforge; for one thing, the kernel image is much older
> (2.6.26-2-486) and the boot fails early on in the initramfs (before the
> squashfs is mounted).
>   
It's because the deb repository
http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/pool/drbl/
changes sometimes...

You can tune the the parameters of create-debian-live to make it. E.g.
/opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -d sid -m
http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian -s
http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security -g http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core

Steven.
> Are there any documented solutions for building production versions of
> Clonezilla with a few minimal modifications?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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[Clonezilla-live] Certaing a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31?

[Michael M. <mo...@zm...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom build of clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.  I
found the FAQ entry here informative, but ultimately it failed me:

http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq#46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq

What I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to create an exact copy of
1.2.2-31 with the addition of a few custom packages.   I booted the
1.2.2-31 LiveCD in VMWare and partitioned the raw disk with a single
partition, sda1.  I created reiserfs on it before proceeding with the
steps documented in the FAQ above.

Step 6 in the FAQ states that I should edit /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf and
add my required dependencies to PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED, which
I did.  I then edited /opt/drbl/setup/files/ocs/live-hook/ocs-live-hook
and added a few lines near the end to install some custom-built debs
from /live-hook-dir in the chroot.  So far, so good.

Next I tried to build a new image, as documented:
  create-debian-live -d lenny -i zmanda -l t

This also worked, so I created the Clonezilla ISO from the debian-live
ISO with ocs-iso.  Then I tried to boot the newly minted ISO image in
another VMWare virtual machine, but this failed.  It looks like the
package selection is completely different from the 1.2.2-31 release on
sourceforge; for one thing, the kernel image is much older
(2.6.26-2-486) and the boot fails early on in the initramfs (before the
squashfs is mounted).

Are there any documented solutions for building production versions of
Clonezilla with a few minimal modifications?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Creating CloneZilla Live CD on other distrubitions.

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Then you have to hack :)

Basically you can check the file /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf, find the 
required packages (PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED) on your Arch Linux.
You can find all the files here:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/

Steven.

Peter Johansson wrote:
> Hello, i  am trying to create my own CloneZilla LiveCD on an Arch Linux 
> distrubition.
> Please do not ask why i would want that, but i really just would like it 
> and i like playing around ;)
>
> So i would need some guidelines how to make something more or what an 
> identical CloneZilla LiveCD just that it runs Arch Linux instead of ubuntu.
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[Clonezilla-live] Creating CloneZilla Live CD on other distrubitions.

[Peter J. <pe...@un...>]

Hello, i  am trying to create my own CloneZilla LiveCD on an Arch Linux 
distrubition.
Please do not ask why i would want that, but i really just would like it 
and i like playing around ;)

So i would need some guidelines how to make something more or what an 
identical CloneZilla LiveCD just that it runs Arch Linux instead of ubuntu.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi John,
If you can, please try these (Of course, backup important data first):
1. Boot clonezilla live on the machine you you can reproduce the problem
2. Enter command line prompt
3. sudo -i
4. . /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions
5. set -x
6. run_grub2_from_restored_os "$grub_partition" "$found_root_partition" 
"/dev/$grub_hd"
Please replace $grub_partition with your grub partition, e.g. /dev/sda1
Replace "$found_root_partition" with your root (/) partition, if you do 
not separate the /boot from /, this value should be the same with 
"grub_partition".
Replace "/dev/$grub_hd" with your grub disk, e.g. /dev/sda in this case.
The complete command is like:
run_grub2_from_restored_os /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda

Please show me the output on the screen. If you are familiar with 
command "screen", you can enter screen in the step (3) so it's easier 
for you to copy and paste the results.

Thanks in advance.

Steven.

John Ouzts wrote:
> Steven,
>
> It is reproducible. I got the exact same error message (except as 
> grub2-sh-yOloXz) in cloning the operating system drive in my second 
> mythtv backend box. Both machines use the same 64 bit Koala install on 
> ASUS M2A-VM HDMI mobos with Seagate drives. What seems unusual to me 
> is that both machines had had separate boot partitions at one time, 
> which had been combined into one ext4 primary partition during the 
> Koala install, when I used automatic partitioning in both cases. 
>
> The harddrive size increased in both machines during the Clonezilla 
> disk cloning, from Seagate 400GB drives up to 500 in the first case 
> and 750 in the second. In both cases, the swap space appears as the 
> sole item in the extended partition with ~100GB/~350GB of unallocated 
> space thereafter. I used GPartEd to shift the extended partition (and 
> swap) to the end of the drive and expand the primary partition to 
> ~690+GBs on the second machine. I have not altered the 500GB primary 
> cloned drive yet.
>
> Please let me know if I can provide you with any more information. I 
> have been looking for grub2 howtos on the web. The sheer volume of 
> conflicting material is off-putting. More power to you in providing 
> such a helpful product.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc... 
> <mailto:st...@nc...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi John,
>
>
>
>     John Ouzts wrote:
>
>         Steven,
>
>         I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web
>         while looking for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4
>         install. The current version of CloneZilla with the Koala
>         kernel did indeed work. One error message appeared in the
>         section about reinstalling grub2:
>
>     Thanks for the bug report.
>
>
>         chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error
>
>
>     This temp file is actually a script file to run the command
>     update-grub2 in the restored OS in the chroot environment. Now
>     idea why it fails... Is this problem reproducible?
>
>     Regards,
>     Steven.
>
>
>         However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the
>         harddrive boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I
>         need to fix?
>
>         Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!
>
>         John
>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[John O. <jo...@gm...>]

Steven,

It is reproducible. I got the exact same error message (except as
grub2-sh-yOloXz) in cloning the operating system drive in my second mythtv
backend box. Both machines use the same 64 bit Koala install on ASUS M2A-VM
HDMI mobos with Seagate drives. What seems unusual to me is that both
machines had had separate boot partitions at one time, which had been
combined into one ext4 primary partition during the Koala install, when I
used automatic partitioning in both cases.

The harddrive size increased in both machines during the Clonezilla disk
cloning, from Seagate 400GB drives up to 500 in the first case and 750 in
the second. In both cases, the swap space appears as the sole item in the
extended partition with ~100GB/~350GB of unallocated space thereafter. I
used GPartEd to shift the extended partition (and swap) to the end of the
drive and expand the primary partition to ~690+GBs on the second machine. I
have not altered the 500GB primary cloned drive yet.

Please let me know if I can provide you with any more information. I have
been looking for grub2 howtos on the web. The sheer volume of conflicting
material is off-putting. More power to you in providing such a helpful
product.

John





On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>
>
> John Ouzts wrote:
>
>> Steven,
>>
>> I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web while
>> looking for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4 install. The
>> current version of CloneZilla with the Koala kernel did indeed work. One
>> error message appeared in the section about reinstalling grub2:
>>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
>
>> chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error
>>
>
> This temp file is actually a script file to run the command update-grub2 in
> the restored OS in the chroot environment. Now idea why it fails... Is this
> problem reproducible?
>
> Regards,
> Steven.
>
>>
>> However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the harddrive
>> boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I need to fix?
>>
>> Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

The problem is, it's a shell script, and it's created by Clonezill 
runtime... I still can not figure it out...

Steven.

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:04 AM, John Ouzts <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>> Steven,
>>
>> I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web while looking
>> for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4 install. The current
>> version of CloneZilla with the Koala kernel did indeed work. One error
>> message appeared in the section about reinstalling grub2:
>> chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error
>> However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the harddrive
>> boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I need to fix?
>> Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!
>> John
>>
>>
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>>
> 
> Exec format error is usually caused by difference in the OS
> architectures, i.e. 32-bit vs 64-bit.
> 

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[Mr. T. En M. (Z. Enming) <spa...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:04 AM, John Ouzts <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> Steven,
>
> I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web while looking
> for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4 install. The current
> version of CloneZilla with the Koala kernel did indeed work. One error
> message appeared in the section about reinstalling grub2:
> chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error
> However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the harddrive
> boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I need to fix?
> Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!
> John
>
>
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Exec format error is usually caused by difference in the OS
architectures, i.e. 32-bit vs 64-bit.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi John,


John Ouzts wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web while 
> looking for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4 install. The 
> current version of CloneZilla with the Koala kernel did indeed work. One 
> error message appeared in the section about reinstalling grub2:
Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error

This temp file is actually a script file to run the command update-grub2 
in the restored OS in the chroot environment. Now idea why it fails... 
Is this problem reproducible?

Regards,
Steven.
> 
> However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the harddrive 
> boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I need to fix?
> 
> Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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[Clonezilla-live] Success in my first attempt with CloneZilla

[John O. <jo...@gm...>]

Steven,

I found all the favorable comment about CloneZilla on the web while looking
for a way to clone a new Ubuntu Koala grub2/ext4 install. The current
version of CloneZilla with the Koala kernel did indeed work. One error
message appeared in the section about reinstalling grub2:

chroot: cannot run command '/grub2-sh-RSkJuV': Exec format error

However, the newly cloned drive did boot up (after I reset the harddrive
boot order in BIOS). Is this error something that I need to fix?

Many thanks for a GREAT LiveCD!

John

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Tutorial: How to Build and Install UFS-LINUX on Fedora 11 x86_64

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi,
Thanks for sharing this. We have put it in the FAQ:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/77_compile_partclone_on_fedora_11_x86_64.faq#77_compile_partclone_on_fedora_11_x86_64.faq

Steven.

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> The project's official webpage is at
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufs-linux/
> 
> ufs-tools is an userspace tool to support FreeBSD's UFS/UFS2
> filesystems on Linux. It is a port of libufs2 from FreeBSD.
> 
> Download the latest source tarball as at 2004-01-13 10:34:33 GMT.
> 
> Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufs-linux/files/ufs-tools/0.1/ufs-tools-0.1.tar.bz2/download
> 
> After completing the download, extract the source tarball.
> 
> $ tar xfvj ufs-tools-0.1.tar.bz2
> 
> Change directory into the ufs-tools source tree.
> 
> $ cd ufs-tools-0.1
> 
> $ cd libufs
> 
> Apply the following patch to Makefile.
> 
> $ patch < Makefile-fc11.patch
> 
> File Makefile-fc11.patch:
> 
> <CODE>
> Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
> and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
> Email: spa...@gm...
> MSN: teo...@ho...
> Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT
> 
> --- Makefile	2004-01-12 20:30:15.000000000 +0800
> +++ Makefile.new	2009-11-17 22:08:55.533049112 +0800
> @@ -4,16 +4,16 @@
>  LIBUFS="_LIBUFS"
> 
>  all : block cgroup inode type sblock
> -	cc  -shared -o libufs.so  block.o cgroup.o inode.o type.o sblock.o
> +	cc -fPIC -shared -o libufs.so  block.o cgroup.o inode.o type.o sblock.o
>  block : block.c
> -	cc -c block.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
> +	cc -fPIC -c block.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
>  cgroup : cgroup.c
> -	cc -c cgroup.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
> +	cc -fPIC -c cgroup.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
>  inode : inode.c
> -	cc -c inode.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
> +	cc -fPIC -c inode.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
>  type : type.c
> -	cc -c type.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
> +	cc -fPIC -c type.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
>  sblock : sblock.c
> -	cc -c sblock.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
> +	cc -fPIC -c sblock.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
>  clean :
>  	rm *.o *.so
> </CODE>
> 
> Compile the libufs2 library.
> 
> $ make
> 
> $ cd ../include/ufs/
> 
> Apply the following patch to types.h C header file.
> 
> $ patch < types-fc11.h.patch
> 
> File types-fc11.h.patch:
> 
> <CODE>
> Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
> and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
> Email: spa...@gm...
> MSN: teo...@ho...
> Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT
> 
> --- types.h	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
> +++ types.h.new	2009-11-17 22:17:45.248047379 +0800
> @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
>  typedef unsigned __int8 __u8;
>  typedef signed __int8 __s8;
> 
> -typedef signed   __int64 __s64;
> -typedef unsigned __int64 __u64;
> -
>  typedef	signed   __int16	__s16;
>  typedef	unsigned __int16	__u16;
> 
> @@ -32,8 +29,10 @@
>  typedef	int32_t	__s32;
>  typedef	uint32_t __u32;
> 
> -typedef uint64_t  __s64;
> -typedef int64_t   __u64;
> +#if defined TYPESH >= 1
> +typedef uint64_t  __u64;
> +typedef int64_t   __s64;
> +#endif
> 
>  /*
>  typedef int32_t ufs1_daddr_t;
> </CODE>
> 
> Go back to the top level ufs-linux source directory.
> 
> $ cd ../..
> 
> Apply the following set of 3 patches.
> 
> $ patch < Makefile-fc11.patch
> 
> File Makefile-fc11.patch:
> 
> <CODE>
> Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
> and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
> Email: spa...@gm...
> MSN: teo...@ho...
> Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT
> 
> --- Makefile	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
> +++ Makefile.new	2009-11-17 22:22:35.798046895 +0800
> @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
>  all : mkufs mkfs
>  	cc  -o mkufs  mkufs.o mkfs.o  libufs/libufs.so
>  mkufs : mkufs.c
> -	cc -c mkufs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
> +	cc -fno-builtin-exit -c mkufs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
>  mkfs : mkfs.c
> -	cc -c mkfs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
> +	cc -fno-builtin-exit -c mkfs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
>  clean:
>  	rm *.o mkufs
> </CODE>
> 
> $ patch < mkfs-fc11.c.patch
> 
> File mkfs-fc11.c.patch:
> 
> <CODE>
> Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
> and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
> Email: spa...@gm...
> MSN: teo...@ho...
> Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT
> 
> --- mkfs.c	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
> +++ mkfs.c.new	2009-11-17 22:14:57.970921921 +0800
> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
>  #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>  #include <grp.h>
> 
> +#define	TYPESH	1
>  #include"ufs/types.h"
>  #include"ufs/misc.h"
>  #include"ufs/dinode.h"    /* Taken from FreeBSD */
> @@ -1043,6 +1044,7 @@
>   * For the regression test, return predictable random values.
>   * Otherwise use a true random number generator.
>   */
> +u_int32_t arc4random();
>  static u_int32_t
>  newfs_random(void)
>  {
> </CODE>
> 
> $ patch < mkufs-fc11.c.patch
> 
> File mkufs-fc11.c.patch:
> 
> <CODE>
> Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
> and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
> Email: spa...@gm...
> MSN: teo...@ho...
> Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
> Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
> Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT
> 
> --- mkufs.c	2004-01-13 13:36:35.000000000 +0800
> +++ mkufs.c.new	2009-11-17 22:10:11.942046997 +0800
> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
>  static void rewritelabel(char *s, struct disklabel *lp);
>  static void usage(void);
>  static void errx(int n,char *fmt, ...);
> +static void err(int n,char *fmt, ...);
> 
> 
>  /*---------------------------------------------------------*/
> </CODE>
> 
> Compile the mkufs binary utility.
> 
> $ make
> 
> Install the library and binary.
> 
> $ sudo cp libufs/libufs.so /lib64
> 
> $ sudo cp mkufs /sbin
> 
> Now you have UFS2 support on Linux.
> 
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[Clonezilla-live] Tutorial: How to Build and Install Partclone on Fedora 11 x86_64

[Mr. T. En M. (Z. Enming) <spa...@gm...>]

Partclone is an open source filesystem backup/cloning utility which
supports the following filesystems:

    * Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4
    * Reiserfs
    * Reiser4
    * Xfs
    * NTFS
    * FAT
    * HFS plus
    * UFS/UFS2

It is a complement to the popular partimage tool which does not
support ext4 filesystems.

The project's official website is at

http://partclone.org/index.php

Question: Why do I want to write this tutorial for building and
installing partclone?
Answer: The authors of partclone only provide Debian .deb binary
packages in addition to source tarballs. There are no RPM binary
packages for partclone at all.

Pre-requisites:

1. Install the following development packages.

# yum install glibc-devel e2fsprogs-devel

2. Install the libufs2 port to Linux. Read the tutorial here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-November/msg01253.html

Download the latest partclone source release from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/partclone/files/0.1.9/partclone_0.1.9-4.tar.gz/download

Extract the partclone source tarball after completing the download.

$ tar xfvz partclone_0.1.9-4.tar.gz

Change directory into the partclone source directory tree.

$ cd partclone-0.1.9

Apply the following patch to the configure script.

$ patch < configure-fc11.patch

File configure-fc11.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow partclone to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- configure	2009-11-16 13:59:33.000000000 +0800
+++ configure	2009-11-17 13:30:57.825923347 +0800
@@ -7729,7 +7729,7 @@

 { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of libextfs" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking version of libextfs... " >&6; }
-extfs_version=`gcc -static  $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lext2fs -DEXTFS`
+extfs_version=`gcc $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lext2fs -DEXTFS`
 extfs_version=`$srcdir/get_lib_version extfs | cut -d'.' -f1`
 extfs_version_major=`$srcdir/get_lib_version extfs | cut -d'.' -f2`
 extfs_version_minor=`$srcdir/get_lib_version extfs | cut -d'.' -f3`
@@ -8365,7 +8365,7 @@

 { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of libreiserfs" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking version of libreiserfs... " >&6; }
-reiserfs_version=`gcc -static  $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lreiserfs -DREISERFS`
+reiserfs_version=`gcc $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lreiserfs -DREISERFS`
 reiserfs_version=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiserfs | cut -d'.' -f1`
 reiserfs_version_major=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiserfs | cut -d'.' -f2`
 reiserfs_version_minor=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiserfs | cut -d'.' -f3`
@@ -8746,7 +8746,7 @@

 { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of libreiser4" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking version of libreiser4... " >&6; }
-reiser4_version=`gcc -static  $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lreiser4 -laal -DREISER4`
+reiser4_version=`gcc $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lreiser4 -laal -DREISER4`
 reiser4_version=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiser4 | cut -d'.' -f1`
 reiser4_version_major=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiser4 | cut -d'.' -f2`
 reiser4_version_minor=`$srcdir/get_lib_version reiser4 | cut -d'.' -f3`
@@ -9084,7 +9084,7 @@

 { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of libntfs" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking version of libntfs... " >&6; }
-ntfs_version=`gcc -static  $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lntfs -DNTFS`
+ntfs_version=`gcc $srcdir/src/deplib_version.c -o
$srcdir/get_lib_version -lntfs -DNTFS`
 ntfs_version=`$srcdir/get_lib_version ntfs | cut -d':' -f1`
 ntfs_version_major=`$srcdir/get_lib_version ntfs | cut -d':' -f2`
 ntfs_version_minor=`$srcdir/get_lib_version ntfs | cut -d':' -f3`
</CODE>

Configure partclone with the following options.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-dependency-tracking
--enable-extfs --enable-ufs --enable-ncursesw --with-gnu-ld

Build partclone.

$ make

Install partclone

$ sudo make install

Congratulations! You are now able to backup ext2/3/4, FAT, NTFS and
UFS/UFS2 filesystems on your Fedora 11 desktop.

[Clonezilla-live] Tutorial: How to Build and Install UFS-LINUX on Fedora 11 x86_64

[Mr. T. En M. (Z. Enming) <spa...@gm...>]

The project's official webpage is at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufs-linux/

ufs-tools is an userspace tool to support FreeBSD's UFS/UFS2
filesystems on Linux. It is a port of libufs2 from FreeBSD.

Download the latest source tarball as at 2004-01-13 10:34:33 GMT.

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufs-linux/files/ufs-tools/0.1/ufs-tools-0.1.tar.bz2/download

After completing the download, extract the source tarball.

$ tar xfvj ufs-tools-0.1.tar.bz2

Change directory into the ufs-tools source tree.

$ cd ufs-tools-0.1

$ cd libufs

Apply the following patch to Makefile.

$ patch < Makefile-fc11.patch

File Makefile-fc11.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- Makefile	2004-01-12 20:30:15.000000000 +0800
+++ Makefile.new	2009-11-17 22:08:55.533049112 +0800
@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@
 LIBUFS="_LIBUFS"

 all : block cgroup inode type sblock
-	cc  -shared -o libufs.so  block.o cgroup.o inode.o type.o sblock.o
+	cc -fPIC -shared -o libufs.so  block.o cgroup.o inode.o type.o sblock.o
 block : block.c
-	cc -c block.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
+	cc -fPIC -c block.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
 cgroup : cgroup.c
-	cc -c cgroup.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
+	cc -fPIC -c cgroup.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
 inode : inode.c
-	cc -c inode.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
+	cc -fPIC -c inode.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
 type : type.c
-	cc -c type.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
+	cc -fPIC -c type.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
 sblock : sblock.c
-	cc -c sblock.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
+	cc -fPIC -c sblock.c  -I${INCLUDE} -D${LIBUFS}
 clean :
 	rm *.o *.so
</CODE>

Compile the libufs2 library.

$ make

$ cd ../include/ufs/

Apply the following patch to types.h C header file.

$ patch < types-fc11.h.patch

File types-fc11.h.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- types.h	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
+++ types.h.new	2009-11-17 22:17:45.248047379 +0800
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 typedef unsigned __int8 __u8;
 typedef signed __int8 __s8;

-typedef signed   __int64 __s64;
-typedef unsigned __int64 __u64;
-
 typedef	signed   __int16	__s16;
 typedef	unsigned __int16	__u16;

@@ -32,8 +29,10 @@
 typedef	int32_t	__s32;
 typedef	uint32_t __u32;

-typedef uint64_t  __s64;
-typedef int64_t   __u64;
+#if defined TYPESH >= 1
+typedef uint64_t  __u64;
+typedef int64_t   __s64;
+#endif

 /*
 typedef int32_t ufs1_daddr_t;
</CODE>

Go back to the top level ufs-linux source directory.

$ cd ../..

Apply the following set of 3 patches.

$ patch < Makefile-fc11.patch

File Makefile-fc11.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- Makefile	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
+++ Makefile.new	2009-11-17 22:22:35.798046895 +0800
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 all : mkufs mkfs
 	cc  -o mkufs  mkufs.o mkfs.o  libufs/libufs.so
 mkufs : mkufs.c
-	cc -c mkufs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
+	cc -fno-builtin-exit -c mkufs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
 mkfs : mkfs.c
-	cc -c mkfs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
+	cc -fno-builtin-exit -c mkfs.c  -I${INCLUDE} ${CFLGS}
 clean:
 	rm *.o mkufs
</CODE>

$ patch < mkfs-fc11.c.patch

File mkfs-fc11.c.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- mkfs.c	2004-01-12 17:45:13.000000000 +0800
+++ mkfs.c.new	2009-11-17 22:14:57.970921921 +0800
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <grp.h>

+#define	TYPESH	1
 #include"ufs/types.h"
 #include"ufs/misc.h"
 #include"ufs/dinode.h"    /* Taken from FreeBSD */
@@ -1043,6 +1044,7 @@
  * For the regression test, return predictable random values.
  * Otherwise use a true random number generator.
  */
+u_int32_t arc4random();
 static u_int32_t
 newfs_random(void)
 {
</CODE>

$ patch < mkufs-fc11.c.patch

File mkufs-fc11.c.patch:

<CODE>
Patch by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) to allow ufs-linux to compile
and install on Fedora 11 x86_64
Email: spa...@gm...
MSN: teo...@ho...
Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618
Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore
Date: 18 November 2009 Wednesday SGT

--- mkufs.c	2004-01-13 13:36:35.000000000 +0800
+++ mkufs.c.new	2009-11-17 22:10:11.942046997 +0800
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
 static void rewritelabel(char *s, struct disklabel *lp);
 static void usage(void);
 static void errx(int n,char *fmt, ...);
+static void err(int n,char *fmt, ...);


 /*---------------------------------------------------------*/
</CODE>

Compile the mkufs binary utility.

$ make

Install the library and binary.

$ sudo cp libufs/libufs.so /lib64

$ sudo cp mkufs /sbin

Now you have UFS2 support on Linux.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers... for over 20 min

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Carl,
Did you see the hard drive light signal is blinking all the time?
Maybe it's hardware issue?

Steven.

Carl Karsten wrote:
> Something funny going on: - says "Finished" about 20 min ago, but
> hasn't returned to a prompt, sitting on
> Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers...
> 
> Here is the whole output:
> 
> 
> root@karmic:~# clonezilla
> Clonezilla mode is device-image
> ocsroot device is local_dev
> Preparing the mount point /home/partimag...
> If you want to use USB device as a Clonezilla image repository, please
> insert USB device into this machine *now*. Wait for about 5 secs then
> press Enter key so that the OS can detect the USB device and later we
> can mount it as /home/partimag.
> Press "Enter" to continue......
> Mounting local dev as /home/partimag...
> Excluding busy partition or disk...
> Getting /dev/sda1 info...
> Getting /dev/sda5 info...
> /dev/sda5 filesystem: ext4
> mount -t auto /dev/sda5 /tmp/local-dev
> Scanning dir /tmp/local-dev....... done!
> The file system disk space usage
> *****************************************************.
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> aufs                  249M  4.1M  245M   2% /
> none                     0     0     0   -  /proc
> none                     0     0     0   -  /sys
> udev                   10M  188K  9.9M   2% /dev
> /dev/sr0              117M  117M     0 100% /live/image
> tmpfs                 249M  4.1M  245M   2% /live/cow
> tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /live
> none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
> none                  249M     0  249M   0% /dev/shm
> none                  249M     0  249M   0% /lib/init/rw
> none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
> none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/debug
> none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/security
> tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /tmp
> none                  249M     0  249M   0% /var/lock
> none                  249M   52K  249M   1% /var/run
> /dev/sda5             5.8G  4.2G  1.3G  77% /tmp/local-dev
> /tmp/local-dev/home   5.8G  4.2G  1.3G  77% /home/partimag
> *****************************************************.
> Press "Enter" to continue......
> done!
> Setting the TERM as xterm
> Choose the mode for ocs-sr
> *****************************************************.
> Clonezilla image dir: /home/partimag
> *****************************************************.
> Excluding busy partition or disk...
> Getting /dev/sda1 info...
> Getting /dev/sdb1 info...
> Getting /dev/sdb5 info...
> Getting /dev/sdb6 info...
> Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
> Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
> *****************************************************.
> Do NOT create partition table on the client harddisk!
> PS. Next time you can run this command directly:
> /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -c -r -j2 -k -p true restoreparts
> "2009-11-15-22-img" "sda1"
> This command is also saved as this file name for later use if
> necessary: /tmp/ocs-2009-11-15-22-img-2009-11-16-03-47
> Press "Enter" to continue...
> Target disk sda does not exist in the image saved from disk(s) "sdb".
> Creating a tmp Clonezilla image "2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted" based
> on the image "2009-11-15-22-img" so that we can restore the image
> 2009-11-15-22-img (was saved from sdb) to sda...
> ///NOTE/// If the restored OS is GNU/Linux, you might have to modify
> /etc/fstab and grub config file in the restored GNU/Linux to affect
> these changes so that it can boot successfully!
> Press "Enter" to continue......
> Creating a temporary image based on image 2009-11-15-22-img...
> Setting the TERM as xterm
> clonezilla image dir: /tmp
> Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/parts... done!
> Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sdb-pt.sf... done!
> Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sdb-pt.parted... done!
> The created image is "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted".
> Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
> Getting /dev/sda1 info...
> *****************************************************.
> The following step is to restore an image to the hard
> disk/partition(s) on this machine: "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted"
> -> "sda sda1"
> WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
> WARNING! THE EXISTING DATA IN THIS HARDDISK/PARTITION(S) WILL BE
> OVERWRITTEN! ALL EXISTING DATA WILL BE LOST:
> *****************************************************.
> Machine: Dimension 8200
> sda1 (53.5GB_ntfs(In_SAMSUNG_SV6003H_)_ata-SAMSUNG_SV6003H_0444J1ET101432)
> *****************************************************.
> Are you sure you want to continue? ?
> [y/n] y
> OK, let's do it!!
> This program is not started by clonezilla server.
> The following step is to restore an image to the hard
> disk/partition(s) on this machine: "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted"
> -> "sda (sda1)"
> WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
> WARNING! THE EXISTING DATA IN THIS HARDDISK/PARTITION(S) WILL BE
> OVERWRITTEN! ALL EXISTING DATA WILL BE LOST:
> *****************************************************.
> Machine: Dimension 8200
> sda1 (53.5GB_ntfs(In_SAMSUNG_SV6003H_)_ata-SAMSUNG_SV6003H_0444J1ET101432)
> *****************************************************.
> Let me ask you again, Are you sure you want to continue? ?
> [y/n] y
> OK, let's do it!!
> Restoring partition /dev/sda1...
> *****************************************************.
> Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sda1...
> *****************************************************.
> *****************************************************.
> Starting unicast restoring image 2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted to /dev/sda1...
> If this action fails or hangs, check:
> * Is the saved image /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sda1.ntfs-img corrupted ?
> *****************************************************.
> ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
> Ntfsclone image version: 10.0
> Cluster size           : 4096 bytes
> Image volume size      : 8389750784 bytes (8390 MB)
> Image device size      : 8389753344 bytes
> Space in use           : 7281 MB (86.8%)
> Offset to image data   : 56 (0x38) bytes
> Restoring NTFS from image ...
> Total Time: 00:16:22, Ave. Rate:  444.9MB/min, 100.00% completed!
> Syncing ...
>>>> Time elapsed: 990.48 secs (~ 16.508 mins), average speed: 438.0 MB/min
> Finished unicast restoring image 2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted to /dev/sda1.
> *****************************************************.
> Restoring the first 446 bytes of MBR data, i.e. executable code area,
> for sda... done!
> *****************************************************.
> Now resize the partition for sda1
> ntfsresize -f /dev/sda1
> ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
> Device name        : /dev/sda1
> NTFS volume version: 3.1
> Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
> Current volume size: 8389751296 bytes (8390 MB)
> Current device size: 53464287744 bytes (53465 MB)
> New volume size    : 53464281600 bytes (53465 MB)
> Checking filesystem consistency ...
> 100.00 percent completed
> Accounting clusters ...
> Space in use       : 7281 MB (86.8%)
> Collecting resizing constraints ...
> Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ...
> Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while)
> Updating $BadClust file ...
> Updating $Bitmap file ...
> Updating Boot record ...
> Syncing device ...
> Successfully resized NTFS on device '/dev/sda1'.
> *****************************************************.
> *****************************************************
> *****************************************************
> This program is not started by Clonezilla server, so skip notifying it
> the job is done.
> Finished!
> Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers...
> 
> 

-- 
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National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
http://www.nchc.org.tw
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[Clonezilla-live] Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers... for over 20 min

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

Something funny going on: - says "Finished" about 20 min ago, but
hasn't returned to a prompt, sitting on
Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers...

Here is the whole output:


root@karmic:~# clonezilla
Clonezilla mode is device-image
ocsroot device is local_dev
Preparing the mount point /home/partimag...
If you want to use USB device as a Clonezilla image repository, please
insert USB device into this machine *now*. Wait for about 5 secs then
press Enter key so that the OS can detect the USB device and later we
can mount it as /home/partimag.
Press "Enter" to continue......
Mounting local dev as /home/partimag...
Excluding busy partition or disk...
Getting /dev/sda1 info...
Getting /dev/sda5 info...
/dev/sda5 filesystem: ext4
mount -t auto /dev/sda5 /tmp/local-dev
Scanning dir /tmp/local-dev....... done!
The file system disk space usage
*****************************************************.
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs                  249M  4.1M  245M   2% /
none                     0     0     0   -  /proc
none                     0     0     0   -  /sys
udev                   10M  188K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/sr0              117M  117M     0 100% /live/image
tmpfs                 249M  4.1M  245M   2% /live/cow
tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /live
none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
none                  249M     0  249M   0% /dev/shm
none                  249M     0  249M   0% /lib/init/rw
none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/debug
none                     0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/security
tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /tmp
none                  249M     0  249M   0% /var/lock
none                  249M   52K  249M   1% /var/run
/dev/sda5             5.8G  4.2G  1.3G  77% /tmp/local-dev
/tmp/local-dev/home   5.8G  4.2G  1.3G  77% /home/partimag
*****************************************************.
Press "Enter" to continue......
done!
Setting the TERM as xterm
Choose the mode for ocs-sr
*****************************************************.
Clonezilla image dir: /home/partimag
*****************************************************.
Excluding busy partition or disk...
Getting /dev/sda1 info...
Getting /dev/sdb1 info...
Getting /dev/sdb5 info...
Getting /dev/sdb6 info...
Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
*****************************************************.
Do NOT create partition table on the client harddisk!
PS. Next time you can run this command directly:
/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -c -r -j2 -k -p true restoreparts
"2009-11-15-22-img" "sda1"
This command is also saved as this file name for later use if
necessary: /tmp/ocs-2009-11-15-22-img-2009-11-16-03-47
Press "Enter" to continue...
Target disk sda does not exist in the image saved from disk(s) "sdb".
Creating a tmp Clonezilla image "2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted" based
on the image "2009-11-15-22-img" so that we can restore the image
2009-11-15-22-img (was saved from sdb) to sda...
///NOTE/// If the restored OS is GNU/Linux, you might have to modify
/etc/fstab and grub config file in the restored GNU/Linux to affect
these changes so that it can boot successfully!
Press "Enter" to continue......
Creating a temporary image based on image 2009-11-15-22-img...
Setting the TERM as xterm
clonezilla image dir: /tmp
Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/parts... done!
Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sdb-pt.sf... done!
Change sdb to sda in /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sdb-pt.parted... done!
The created image is "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted".
Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
Getting /dev/sda1 info...
*****************************************************.
The following step is to restore an image to the hard
disk/partition(s) on this machine: "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted"
-> "sda sda1"
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
WARNING! THE EXISTING DATA IN THIS HARDDISK/PARTITION(S) WILL BE
OVERWRITTEN! ALL EXISTING DATA WILL BE LOST:
*****************************************************.
Machine: Dimension 8200
sda1 (53.5GB_ntfs(In_SAMSUNG_SV6003H_)_ata-SAMSUNG_SV6003H_0444J1ET101432)
*****************************************************.
Are you sure you want to continue? ?
[y/n] y
OK, let's do it!!
This program is not started by clonezilla server.
The following step is to restore an image to the hard
disk/partition(s) on this machine: "/tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted"
-> "sda (sda1)"
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
WARNING! THE EXISTING DATA IN THIS HARDDISK/PARTITION(S) WILL BE
OVERWRITTEN! ALL EXISTING DATA WILL BE LOST:
*****************************************************.
Machine: Dimension 8200
sda1 (53.5GB_ntfs(In_SAMSUNG_SV6003H_)_ata-SAMSUNG_SV6003H_0444J1ET101432)
*****************************************************.
Let me ask you again, Are you sure you want to continue? ?
[y/n] y
OK, let's do it!!
Restoring partition /dev/sda1...
*****************************************************.
Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sda1...
*****************************************************.
*****************************************************.
Starting unicast restoring image 2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted to /dev/sda1...
If this action fails or hangs, check:
* Is the saved image /tmp/2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted/sda1.ntfs-img corrupted ?
*****************************************************.
ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Ntfsclone image version: 10.0
Cluster size           : 4096 bytes
Image volume size      : 8389750784 bytes (8390 MB)
Image device size      : 8389753344 bytes
Space in use           : 7281 MB (86.8%)
Offset to image data   : 56 (0x38) bytes
Restoring NTFS from image ...
Total Time: 00:16:22, Ave. Rate:  444.9MB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncing ...
>>> Time elapsed: 990.48 secs (~ 16.508 mins), average speed: 438.0 MB/min
Finished unicast restoring image 2009-11-15-22-img-tmp-cnvted to /dev/sda1.
*****************************************************.
Restoring the first 446 bytes of MBR data, i.e. executable code area,
for sda... done!
*****************************************************.
Now resize the partition for sda1
ntfsresize -f /dev/sda1
ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Device name        : /dev/sda1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 8389751296 bytes (8390 MB)
Current device size: 53464287744 bytes (53465 MB)
New volume size    : 53464281600 bytes (53465 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use       : 7281 MB (86.8%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ...
Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while)
Updating $BadClust file ...
Updating $Bitmap file ...
Updating Boot record ...
Syncing device ...
Successfully resized NTFS on device '/dev/sda1'.
*****************************************************.
*****************************************************
*****************************************************
This program is not started by Clonezilla server, so skip notifying it
the job is done.
Finished!
Now syncing - flush filesystem buffers...


-- 
Carl K

Re: [Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Bill,
When you restored the image, did you enter expert mode, and choose 
option "-k1"?
If so, Clonezilla should create the partition size proportionally on the 
target disk, and resize the file system size to fit the partition size.
If you just use the beginner mode, by default it uses the partition size 
from the image.

Steven.

Bill Gurley wrote:
> Update:
>
> I finally tried creating the full disk partition and letting clonezilla 
> re-size the file system after restoring the image.  This worked.
>
> However, I still would like to know why the procedure below would not 
> work.  I like using this procedure because I have, for example, about 
> twenty Gateway E4100 machines in my building.  They are older machines, 
> and consequently have varying sizes of disks, ranging from 20GB to 
> 250GB.  So I like to keep the images at 20GB or 40GB images.  Obviously 
> you cannot restore a 250GB image to an 80GB drive, so this is the reason 
> I like to use small partitions for saving images.
>
> So, in summary, the issue is restoring a "small" image to a big disk and 
> then re-sizing the NTFS partition afterwards.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill Gurley wrote:
>   
>> I'm going round and round in circles on this.  It's something I have 
>> done many times in the past, but am now having trouble.
>>
>> I keep standard Windows XP installation images of various computer 
>> models used in my department.  Here's is my problem:
>>
>> I have a 40GB image that I want to restore to a 250GB hard drive. 
>> Ultimately, I want the single NTFS partition to take up the entire drive.
>>
>> I normally start this situation by creating an empty 40GB partition on 
>> the target drive, and then use clonezilla live to restore to that.  I'm 
>> using all the default settings.
>>
>> After restoration, I boot to XP, then reboot again.
>>
>> Then I use a partitioning program, such as gparted (but I have tried 
>> others), to grow the partition.
>>
>> After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the 
>> original partition size!  If I go into Computer Management > Disk 
>> Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. 
>> But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB!
>>
>> Also:  If I use the commercial Partition Magic program, and choose 
>> "Check For Errors", I get two entries that say:
>>
>> "Information mismatch in directory entry"
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> -Bill-
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>     Bill Gurley, Technical Director
>>     Department of Chemistry
>>     Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
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>
>   

-- 
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Wesley Schwengle wrote:
> Hello Bill,
> 
>> After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the 
>> original partition size!  If I go into Computer Management > Disk 
>> Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. 
>> But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB!
> 
> You mean like this (check the C drive):
> http://opperschaap.net/~wesleys/xp-incorrect-diskspace.png
> 
> This is a known issue when you start Googling it. We couldn't convince
> Windows to use 8 GB, when we used 7.x GB Windows did report the same
> disksize..
> 
> I never tried to resolve the issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wesley


Yes, that's exactly it.

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    Department of Chemistry
    Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Update:

I finally tried creating the full disk partition and letting clonezilla 
re-size the file system after restoring the image.  This worked.

However, I still would like to know why the procedure below would not 
work.  I like using this procedure because I have, for example, about 
twenty Gateway E4100 machines in my building.  They are older machines, 
and consequently have varying sizes of disks, ranging from 20GB to 
250GB.  So I like to keep the images at 20GB or 40GB images.  Obviously 
you cannot restore a 250GB image to an 80GB drive, so this is the reason 
I like to use small partitions for saving images.

So, in summary, the issue is restoring a "small" image to a big disk and 
then re-sizing the NTFS partition afterwards.

Thanks.


Bill Gurley wrote:
> I'm going round and round in circles on this.  It's something I have 
> done many times in the past, but am now having trouble.
> 
> I keep standard Windows XP installation images of various computer 
> models used in my department.  Here's is my problem:
> 
> I have a 40GB image that I want to restore to a 250GB hard drive. 
> Ultimately, I want the single NTFS partition to take up the entire drive.
> 
> I normally start this situation by creating an empty 40GB partition on 
> the target drive, and then use clonezilla live to restore to that.  I'm 
> using all the default settings.
> 
> After restoration, I boot to XP, then reboot again.
> 
> Then I use a partitioning program, such as gparted (but I have tried 
> others), to grow the partition.
> 
> After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the 
> original partition size!  If I go into Computer Management > Disk 
> Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. 
> But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB!
> 
> Also:  If I use the commercial Partition Magic program, and choose 
> "Check For Errors", I get two entries that say:
> 
> "Information mismatch in directory entry"
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -Bill-
> 
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[Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

I'm going round and round in circles on this.  It's something I have 
done many times in the past, but am now having trouble.

I keep standard Windows XP installation images of various computer 
models used in my department.  Here's is my problem:

I have a 40GB image that I want to restore to a 250GB hard drive. 
Ultimately, I want the single NTFS partition to take up the entire drive.

I normally start this situation by creating an empty 40GB partition on 
the target drive, and then use clonezilla live to restore to that.  I'm 
using all the default settings.

After restoration, I boot to XP, then reboot again.

Then I use a partitioning program, such as gparted (but I have tried 
others), to grow the partition.

After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the 
original partition size!  If I go into Computer Management > Disk 
Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. 
But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB!

Also:  If I use the commercial Partition Magic program, and choose 
"Check For Errors", I get two entries that say:

"Information mismatch in directory entry"

Suggestions?

Thanks,


-Bill-

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    Bill Gurley, Technical Director
    Department of Chemistry
    Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] grub2 support

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Wesley,
Great! Thanks for the confirmation.

Steven.

Wesley Schwengle wrote:
> Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> Clonezilla live 1.2.2-31 or 20091005-karmic should work if grub2 is 
>> installed on the OS you want to clone.
>> It will chroot to the restored OS then use the grub2-install to 
>> reinstall the grub2 boot loader.
>>
>> Please let us know if any problem there.
>
> Thanks for the response. I am happy to say I was able to restore my OS 
> with grub2 without any problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Wesley

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