Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Simon Loewen wrote:
> I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky.
> 
> I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had 
> thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up data 
> lies.  The data is still there.
> 
> However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc directory 
>   to write its file system into, and if one selected the top level of 
> the mount then all data there will disappear.   I think that it ought to 
> be clearer that  it shall delete all data in that directory first, as 
> the contents of the other drive shows.
> 
> Final question:
> 
> Can I use a set-up like this?
> 
> /dev/sdc2  for the CZ operating system area.
> /dev/sdc2  for the target image.
> /dev/sda1  for the source partition.

Are you doing a disk->image copy or disk->disk?  In the disk->image 
case, clonezilla should not delete anything.  It should just create a 
new directory of the name you give for the image and put some new files 
under it.  In the disk->disk mode it is going to duplicate the source 
exactly and wipe out whatever was on the target just like an image->disk 
run would.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...