Re: [Clonezilla-live] problems with a dual boot system

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

Hi Robert,
Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>> I think we are talking about different story. :)
>> Maybe it's a good idea that you tell us the procedure you have done
>> "step by step".
>> By "step by step" I mean you tell every step you choose and input after
>> you boot Clonezilla live in your machine.
>> This will be much easier for us to discuss.
>
> Steven,
> I ran Clonezilla with the follwing options:
>
> device-device disk/partition to disk/partition clone
>
> disk_to_local_disk
>
> source sda 320 Gb (the internal HD)
>
> target sdb 360 Gb (the external HD)
>
> extra parameters: default
> use partition table from source disk
>
> continue y & y
>
> bootloader to sdb y
>
> continue y
The steps look OK.
>
> When the prog backs up each partition the window header displays
> "restore partition from image file". This sounds as if an image was 
> created and then deleted during restore. I'm probably misinterpreting 
> this. If so, please correct me.
Well, actually that's what shown by partimage which is used to save 
partition to image, however, clonezilla will pipe that to another 
partimage to write it to the partition directly. Therefore actually 
there is no image will be written in any directory.
>
> reboot
>
> The result was the same as I have previously described. No 
> /home/partimage
> anywhere on either drive. Only individual directories in /media and
> /media/disk. The /media/disk/home directory is empty and /media/_home 
> has incomplete content with a bunch of files missing according to "diff".
>
> Again, the directories that appeared only were from the Fedora 
> installation, nothing from Ubuntu.
 From what you have done is disk to disk, as I mentioned, no image will 
be saved.
The question now is, the restored disk sdb should contain the same files 
as sda, isn't it ?

Steven.


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