Re: [Clonezilla-live] root partition backup

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

On 2014年05月11日 22:40, Adam Gold wrote:
> I currently have a three partition setup using ubuntu 14.04:
> sda1: efi boot
> sda2: boot
> sda3: LVM (root + swap)
>
> Let's say I backup sda3.  Subsequently let's say I add a few additional
> partitions (it's a GPT disk) and did a few kernel upgrades (through
> apt).  If I then decided at some point later that I wanted to restore
> sda3, could I go ahead and do that.  I ask because it seems the
> partition table will have changed as well as the kernel so will there
> not be some kind of a mismatch?
It's possible there will be such a mismatch. The linux kernel modules
are localted in /lib/modules/. Therefore it might mismatch to that in
/boot/.
You still can do that with Clonezilla, just have to remember there is
such a risk.

Steven.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice
>
> P.S. I appreciate a full disk backup would avoid this but I'd rather not
> do this as there's a large data portion I don't need clonezilla for.
>
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