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

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

On 7 December 2010 14:02, Antonio Olivares <oli...@gm...> wrote:
>>> I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand
>>> that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody
>>> owes it to me.
>> As for restore to smaller disks/partitions, for the time being you can
>> use fsarchiver, however, since it does not support pipe, we can not use
>> it for multicast clone, that's why we do not use it. However, we have
>> some ideas about how to use that for single machine restoring. We will
>> try to make it in the future... But it's not the near future :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steven.
>
> I am sure many others would like to see this being implemented within
> clonezilla.  A friend of mine which has a computer lab at a school
> which I worked before had like 15 machines down.  I told her to set up
> one the way she liked and she did.  I then used Clonezilla-live to set
> up the rest of the machines.  I had no problems with the machines that
> had the same disk size.  However not all the machines had the same
> hard drive size.  I still cloned the machine, but it took me a little
> bit longer to do it.  I resized the OS to accomodate to the smaller
> disk.  I ran scandisk + defragmenter, then used Gparted to resize the
> partition ran chkdsk -p[very important* clonezilla won't restore if
> there is a filesytem check in windows].  I tried again and it worked
> :)  It can be done, but it takes a little bit longer.  It would be
> awesome if clonezilla could do this by default :) , whenever there is
> something out there there would hopefully be more users helping in
> testing.  I do appreciate and am thankful to have clonezilla in my
> arsenal of tools :)

I have no issues with saving and restoring resized partitions (but I
do not use clonezilla for that).

Still you do need to shrink the source partitions before cloning
because there is no way to access the partclone images I know of.

If there was a FUSE module to make the partclone image accessible as a
block device you could both access the files stored in the image and
possibly resize it using some md/lvm snapshot functionality in the
Linux kernel.

Thanks

Michal