Re: [Clonezilla-live] Why Clonezilla does not suck

[Michal S. <hra...@ce...>]

On 3 December 2010 18:47, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:
> On 12/3/2010 11:34 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla.  I realized
>>> early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click
>>> interface.  But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble
>>> understanding how to use it.
>>
>> In my eyes Clonezilla only caters to the simplistic point-and-click users.
>
> No, it really caters to the fully-automatic users that want to repeat
> the same clone many times without any intervention.
>
>> There is no way to get control over the operations Clonezilla performs
>> with the current user interface and pointers to information on how to
>> customize the behaviour are missing.
>
> Most operations give you the command line version of what you just did
> so you don't have to repeat the selections.  But note that it is called
> clonezilla, not 'GUI tool for disk resizing'.

I did not notice the option for specifying target partition size on
the generated commandline.

I don't insist on using a GUI, I would appreciate automation.

However, clonezilla does not even perform the task for me by manually
choosing options.

Thanks

Michal