[Clonezilla-live] Cannot concatenate nfts image files

[Chris <cj...@br...>]

Hello.

With previous versions, I know you used to be able to uncompress,  
concatenate then restore the nfts .img files, then mount the resulting  
file using the loopback option, as stated in the FAQ:

---------------------<snip>------------------------------------------
1. Prepare a large disk in Linux
2. Say if your image is /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/, and the image is  
/home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa, hda1.ntfs-img.ab...
run
"file /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa"
to see it's gzip, bzip or lzop image. Say it's gzip, then you can run
cat /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c | ntfsclone  
--restore-image -o hda1.img -
Then you will have a "hda1.img" which you can mount it by
mount -o loop -t ntfs hda1.img /mnt
-------------</snip>-------------------------------------------------

However, this is not working anymore, using Clonezilla Live 1.2.2.

First, the image files are named hda1.vfat-ptcl-img.gz.a?  (note the  
"ptcl" and that the '?' is a wildcard).

When I do the above on these split-image files I get:

# cat dir/hda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* |gzip -d -c |ntfsclone  
--restore-image -o hda2.img -
ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
ERROR: Input file is not an image! (invalid magic)

I am using the most recent ntfsprogs avaialable(as you can see).  Is  
there any way to do this anymore?

Thank you.

Chris