Re: [Clonezilla-live] bug in clonezilla...

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

The latest stable Clonezilla live is 3.0.3-22, and it was released about 
2 months abo:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Have you tried it?
There are some improvements about BTRFS, as mentioned here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2023/02/-stable-clonezilla-live-303-22-released-/

Steven

On 4/7/23 14:31, jd...@do... wrote:
> Hello,
> My first post on this list, forgive me if I write about things you 
> already know :-(.
>
> I was just hit two days ago by a bug. Probably a bug related to btrfs 
> on openSUSE Tumbleweed. The result was empty files on the target 
> making in unusable.
>
> Details: I wanted to clone a presently in  use sata 480Go ssd in an 
> asus N550jk computer (intel i7) to an nvme 512Go disk aimed to an asus 
> tuf 706iu (amd rysen) computer. Many partitions on it. nvme in an usb3 
> nvme dock.
>
> Clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64.iso on a Ventoy usb pen.
>
> no error message at the end of the clone, done mostly with default 
> options. None of the two openSUSE install on the disk could boot, when 
> Windows 10 boot correctly.
>
> At first I suspected an UID/fstab problem, but in the end I could see 
> a lot of system files have quotation marks in ls -l result.
>
> Once a fresh Tumbleweed install done on the (obsolete) openSUSE Leap 
> 15.3 partition, I noticed that these system files on the root of 
> faulty Tumbleweed where zero length files.
>
> I suspect the problem come from btrfs snapshot/subvols management, the 
> link between updated and non updated files is broken.
>
> Old ssd partition and faulty Tumbleweed partition are still available 
> for check is necessary (some files where changed in the way of trying 
> to boot the system)
>
> sincerely
> jdd

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