Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla / Partclone ext4 problem

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

The error message: "EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 47863659 
exceeds size of
device (47712800 blocks)"
Maybe you have to check the destination partition size is equal or 
larger than the source one.

Steven.

On 2010年08月31日 16:37, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently made an image of my HDD using clonezilla live and discovered
> a problem with the partclone image of an ext4 partition on that HDD. The
> ext4 partition is the root "/" partition of a Fedora 13 installation.
>
> Problem description:
>
> After creating an image (with gzip compression) of the HDD I ran
>
> # cat sda3.ext4-ptcl-img.gz | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -o
> sda3.img
>
> to obtain "sda3.img" which I want to loop mount using the command
>
> # mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro sda3.img /media/ext4test/
>
> yielding the following error output from mount
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>         dmesg | tail  or so
>
> the corresponding dmesg output is
>
> EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 47863659 exceeds size of
> device (47712800 blocks)
>
> I searched the web to find out if the problem is more widespread, but I
> did not (yet) find anything clonezilla/partclone related.
>
> The partition itself is OK since Fedora 13 boots flawlessly from it and
> fsck does not report any errors. However, due to the above error I
> cannot run fsck on the file "sda3.img". The error happens with both, the
> 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of Fedora 13.
>
> Previously I never had problems with clonezilla and ext3 partitions. I
> hit this error using clonezilla-live-1.2.5-35-i686.iso and
> clonezilla-live-20100721-lucid.iso (the latest stable versions of
> clonezilla live).
>
> Additional information is attached.
>
> Did I miss an option in the mount command? Is there something else in
> the procedure I am using?
>
> I highly appreciate any help in resolving this problem.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> PS: The "/boot" partition on that HDD also uses ext4 and it can be loop
> mounted without any problems from an image using the procedure as
> described above.
>
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