Re: [Clonezilla-live] Is it safe to interrupt a Clonezilla Live imaging process?

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

On 03/14/2012 03:05 AM, jum...@hu... wrote:
> Thanks! I found that my mistake was to use partclone instead of 
> ntfsclone, because in an older version of Clonezilla, ntfsclone was 
> the default option, so I assumed it still was the default option, but 
> the newest version changed things a bit.
We have switched to partclone for a long time. :)
>
> About what you said: Clonezilla gives dire warnings about how a USB 
> hard drive might not be usable if the computer is improperly shut down 
> during the Clonezilla process. Could this really happen? I would never 
> improperly shut it down myself intentionally, but if the power fails 
> during the process, it's out of my control.
Yes. If the USB drive is removed when a file system is written, or 
without unmounting properly, the file system might be broken.
>
> If something like that happened, would the USB drive become a 
> permanent doorstopper, or is there still a way to make it usable 
> again? Will I lose any other data that's already stored on the USB drive?
Normally it's only file system broken, i.e. software issue. Not hardware 
issue.

Steven.
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