Re: [Clonezilla-live] [1.2.6-24-i686] Doesn't update partition ID

[Gilles <cod...@fr...>]

At 03:00 01/10/2010, Steven Shiau wrote:
>Does this problem occur when you do disk to disk cloning, or image restoring?

When restoring an image from /sda2 to /sda1 on my test host. I only 
use Clonezilla to restore an image into a partition, so as to be able 
to test applications in the different versions of Windows. That's 
also why it was important for me to understand exactly what CZ does 
to the MBR, especially the bootloader part, when restoring just one partition.

>Normally Clonezilla should honor the partition table of source disk, 
>and create the same table on the destination disk. No idea why there is

Does Clonezilla rewrite the partition table in the MBR even when just 
restoring an image in a single partition (instead of restoring the 
image of a whole disk)?

>Could you please run the following commands on the source disk:
>1. sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>2. sudo parted -s /dev/sda print
>(Replace /dev/sda as the source disk device name)
>then tell us the results?

Here goes:
//================ fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa2e3ce9a
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2551        7649    40957717+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           10200       10330     1052257+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           10200       10330     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris

//================ parted -s /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD1600AAJS-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
  1      32.3kB  21.0GB  21.0GB  primary   ntfs            boot
  2      21.0GB  62.9GB  41.9GB  primary   ext2
  3      83.9GB  85.0GB  1078MB  extended
  5      83.9GB  85.0GB  1077MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)

I didn't know Base64 could look this cute :-)
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1020/clonezillashiaubase64.jpg

Cheers,
Gilles.