Re: [Clonezilla-live] Cannot concatenate nfts image files

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

Chris wrote:
> 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 -
>   
The image was saved by partclone, not ntfsclone. Therefore you have to 
run like this:

1. touch hda2.img

2. cat dir/hda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* |gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -o hda2.img

(I think We will improve partclone.restore so that in the future you do not have to touch hda2.img first)

Please let us know your results.

Steven. 

> 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
>
>
>
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