Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla support for ext4 file system

[Jay M. <jay...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 does support to save and restore ext4 partition.
> However, if grub is installed on an ext4 partition, Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26
> won't handle that correctly.
> It's recommended to use Clonezilla live 20090727-jaunty to deal with ext4,
> since ubuntu jaunty has a patch to make grub work with ext4 partition.
> BTW, a reminder: ext4 is not officially by grub.
>
> Steven.


Steven,

Thanks for your reply. On my PC, GRUB is installed on the / (root) partition
& I boot into Ubuntu 9.04 from the NT bootloader using the bootpart method (
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) as mentioned at
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#install.

I could not find Clonezilla Live 20090727-jaunty anywhere in the Synaptic
Package Manager, but it is there on the Clonezilla Sourceforge Project page.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/

Will try out the Jaunty version of Clonezilla.

Thanks,

Jay Mistry

_PS_
As other Linux distributions with newer Linux kernel have support for the
ext4 file system (eg Fedora 11), many users who also use Windows w/ Linux &
boot through the Windows NT loader would also put GRUB on the / (root)
partition of their Linux install. Considering this, will later versions of
Clonezilla Live CD have support for backing up GRUB on an ext4 partition ?



>
> Jay Mistry wrote:
>
>> I used Clonezilla Live CD (1.2.2-14) to make a backup image of the /
>> (root) and /home partitions of Ubuntu 9.04. Both these partitions are
>> formatted as ext4. It could make the image and save it properly (saved to
>> another NTFS partition of 2nd HD on same PC). Howevr there were some error
>> messages in the console about not being able to mount the ext4 partitions
>> properly.
>>
>> Is there an issue with imaging ext4 type partitions or does Clonezilla
>> LIve CD (latest stable version) have support for reliable ext4 FS backups ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay Mistry
>>
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