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This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.3-16) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.1.3-11

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Jul/15).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.9.9-1.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.32.
• ocs-resize-part: add option "-f" for fatresize in batch mode.
• Replace the command to clean super blocks of fakeraid. Now mdadm is used, and no more using dmraid since dmraid is not maintained anymore.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.3-11) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.1.2-22

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Jun/28).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.9.7-1.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.31.
• Removed package cpufrequtils from lists of live system. It's not in the Debian repo anymore.
• Removed thin-provisioning-tools from packages list of clonezilla live due to it breaks the dependence.
• Added package yq, and removed package deborphan in live system.
• Merged pull request #31 from iamzhaohongxin/patch-1. Update zh_CN.UTF-8.
• Language file ca_ES was updated. Thanks to René Mérou.
• Language file de_DE was updated. Thanks to Savi G and Michael Vinzenz.
• Package live-boot was updated to 1:20240525.drbl1.
• Package live-config was updated to 11.0.5+drbl3.
• Set a bigger scrollback for screen in live system. It's easier to debug.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.2-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.1.2-9

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Apr/08).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.7.9-2.
• Package ezio was updated to 2.0.11.
• New format messages sending to ocsmgrd. A comma (,) is used to separate the messages.
• Rotate Clonezilla-related log files & receive new format messages from clients.
• Include powermgmt-base and pdsh in live system.
• xz-utils was reverted back to the 5.4.5 version.
• Removed "ip=" from boot parameters. Thanks to Robert Spitzenpfeil for mentioning that. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/415/... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.2-9) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.1.1-27

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Jan/16).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.6.11-1.
• Package ezio was updated to 2.0.8.
• Show Clonezilla live version in grub netboot in the lite client.
• Show the massive deployment mode in the boot menu of netboot clients.
• ocs-ezio-leecher: Use Ezio simple output mode when the terminal is smaller than 80x24.
• The netboot files will be modified only at stopping when the client is using netboot.
• Language file hu_HU was updated. Thanks to Greg.
• Memtest86+ was updated to v7.00. Thanks to ottokang.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.1-27) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.1.0-22

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2023/Nov/02).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.5.8-1.
• Language files ca_ES, de_DE, el_GR.UTF-8, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK, and tr_TR were updated. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz, Stamatis Mavrogiorgis, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Kris, Ondrej Dzivy Balucha, and Volkan Gezer.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.27. Options --read-direct-io and --write-direct-io are available.
• Package ezio was updated to 2.0.5. Some improvements from 2.0.3: * show version when running. * show save_path instead of name. * Torrent is larger than 4MB.
• Packages acpitool, ntfs2btrfs, zfsutils-linux, and vim (not vim-tiny) are included in the live system.
• Package mlocate was replaced by plocate.
• Support an extra dir "root" for the root fs with grub reinstallation. This is for the case that Fedora >= 38 uses an extra dir "root" for root file system, i.e., /root/ under the root partition. Older system just puts the dirs (boot, usr, var, lib) in the / of root file system. Thanks to Bob Bobsled for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/mailman/message/42287717/
• Add option "-edio" in the TUI wizard, which is used to enable direct IO when using Partclone to save or restore NVMe SSD.
• ocs-park-disks: only park HDD, not SSD.
• Since grub commands "linux/initrd" works for uEFI boot, no matter it's secure boot or not. Just use them, not using linuxefi/initrdefi.
• Improved the mechanism for the reserved word name "all" when in the restoredisk/restoreparts mode. The reserved name "unmounted_disk" and "unmounted_parts" for restoredisk and restoreparts modes were added, respectively. Thanks to ottokang for this bug report.
• Add the mechanism for multicast deployment from raw devices. Note: The options -bdt and -bsdf of ocs-live-feed-img are deprecated. They are replaced by -cdt and -csdf, it means cast (including bittorrent and multicast), not only for bittorrent only.
• Default to use -z9p (parallel zstd compression) in the TUI when saving an image.
• ocs-live-feed-img: implement options -ssnf & -iui. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/416d0fe630/
• Allow bt_restoredisk mode to restore image to different device name. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/09d819bcbf/?limit=25#e267/46b4 https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/70b7ca6263/?limit=25#2d08
• Show disk ID path in the disk info.
• When ocs_screen_blank="no" is assigned in the boot parameters, the console won't blank.
• Memtest86+ was updated to v6.20. Thanks to ottokang.
• Allow choosing NIC in lite server mode when multiple network cards exist. Thanks to Date Huang and Nate Carr for asking this. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/6fedbfd6c3

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This release of Clonezilla live (3.1.0-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.0.3-22

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2023/Apr/26).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.1.25-1.
• Package ezio was updated to 2.0.1-1. The corresponding changes to Clonezilla have been done.
• Program makeboot.sh: make it run only in x86 arch.
• Include packages dvtm & dtach.
• Memtest86+ was updated to v6.10.
• If block dev has a file system found in the image when restoring, treat it as a partition.
• ocs-sr: if /dev/md* exists, list both disk and parts in TUI, and disable devices list cache mechanism.
• ocs-onthefly: disable devices list cache mechanism if /dev/md* exists.
• Add option "-K" (--ignoreactivationskip) to vgchange so that snapshots can be dealed with. Thanks to Felipe Piero Benjamin Solari Agüela (fsolari at pucp.edu.pe) for suggesting this.
• Functions check_if_disk_busy and is_partition of ocs-functions were improved. Fake/firmware RAID support should be improved. Thanks to Michael McGrath. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/8627eabf99/?limit=25&page=1#9b16/b174... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.0.3-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.0.2-21

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2023/Feb/12).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.1.11-1.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.23, which has updated btrfs to 6.0.1.
• Show option "-j2" in the restoreparts menu, default off.
• The swap partition is shown in the saveparts dialog menu. Swap partition can be saved in two modes: only keep UUID/label or dumped by dd. A better mechanism is implemented to deal with these two scenarios.
• Improved LUKS mechanism to support multiple LUKS devices. Thanks to Swâmi Petaramesh for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/397/
• LUKS swap device should keep UUID and label only, not using dd mode. Thanks to Swâmi Petaramesh for reporting this. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/400/
• Add "--powersave off" in setterm for screen not blanking in the console.
• Support mkinitcpio in updating initramfs mechanism. This is for restoring Arch/Manjaro Linux.
• New program ocs-live-ver can be used to show clonezilla live version.
• Replace ocs-bttrack with opentracker since python2 is not available in Debian Sid anymore.
• Memtest86+ was updated to v6.00. Thanks to Lord65 for suggesting this.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.0.2-21) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.0.1-8

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Nov/3).
• Linux kernel was updated to 6.0.6-2.
• Language files de_DE, el_GR.UTF-8, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK, and tr_TR were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Stamatis Mavrogiorgis, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Ondrej Dzivý Balucha, Kris and Volkan Gezer.
• Show options "-k0" and "-k1" in the restoring action for beginner mode in the ocs-onthefly.
• Include package ufw in live system.
• Disable glances service in live system.
• Add option "-sfs" in the dialog menu. The corresponding language files were updated, too. Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/71... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.0.1-8) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.0.0-26

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Jun/12).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.18.5-1.
• Add packages ngrep, duf, duff and dfc in the live system.
• Add more options in boot parameters to be parsed, including: extra_pbzip2_opt, extra_lbzip2_opt, extra_plzip_opt, extra_lz4mt_opt, and extra_xz_opt. Thanks to ottokang for this request.
• Update live-boot as 1:20220505.drbl1, and jfbterm 0.4.7-49.drbl2 (sync the version number with that of Fedora).
• The option --rsyncable of zstd causes bad performance. It can be 5 times slower for v1.4.x, and worse for v1.5.2. Hence by default we do not use it, and use zstd 1.5.2 again in this release. Ref: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/3150
• Support more wired NIC device types of name in ocs-live-netcfg. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/6026cbd187/... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (3.0.0-26) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.8.1-12

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/May/22).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.17.6-1.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.20.
• This release supports APFS (Apple File System) imaging/cloning now.
• Add LUKS support. Basically a better mechanism than dd is implemented. //NOTE// It's recommended to encrypt the image when saving the LUKS device.
• Update language files de_DE, el_GR, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, hu_HU, pl_PL and sk_SK. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Stamatis Mavrogeorgis, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Greg, kris and Ondrej Dzivý Balucha.
• Add wavemon, memtester, edac-utils, shc and uml-utilities in the live system.
• Remove s3ql from the live system.
• A better mechanism was implemented to check GPT/MBR format of a disk. This is a workaround to deal with ChromeOS Flex partition table. Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2022-04/msg00001.html
  https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/688ce74fb1
• Add the dummy option "-k0" for creating partition in ocs-sr and ocs-onthefly. It's the same as default action. Just easier for us to explain.
• Add memtester in the uEFI boot menu.
• Boot parameter use_os_prober="no" now skips running os-prober. Thanks to Bernard Michaud for this idea. Ref:
  https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b96b4eee21/?limit=25#d97b
• Add a mechanism to skip using devices list cache. If the boot parameter use_dev_list_cache=no in the boot parameter, then the devices list cache mechanism won't be used.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.8.1-12) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.8.0-27

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Jan/03).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.15.5-2.
• Language files ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, ja_JP, pl_PL and sk_SK were updated. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz, Juan Ramón Martínez, Greg, Akira Yoshiyama, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Kris, and Ondrej Dzivý Balucha.
• By default do not split the image file of a partition, i.e., use "-i 0" when saving an image by ocs-sr. If the image repo is FAT, VOL_LIMIT_IN_INTERACTIVE will be set as 4096 when running ocs-sr in saving mode. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/46706796eb/
• boot-local-efi.cfg: Improved to detect hd1, hd2... Thanks to Sung Cho for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/371/... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.8.0-27) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.7.3-19

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/Nov/17).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.14.6-3.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.18.
• Package ezio was updated to 1.2.0.
• Language files de_DE, hu_HU, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK, tr_TR, were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Greg., Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Juan Ramón Martínez, kris, Ondrej Dzivy Balucha and Volkan Gezer.
• Program ocs-live-netcfg was improved: wireless can be configured using nmtui, and boot parameter ocs_nic_type can be used to assign if wired or wireless when configuring network in ocs-live-netcfg.
• update-efi-nvram-boot-entry: improved to refer to saved nvram data (efi-nvram.dat). In addition, multiple boot entries can be processed, too. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/9ffa31f838
• Suppress the error message about "setterm -blank 0".
• Add a cache mechanism to speed up the device scanning.
• Allow reserved image names to be used in TUI. The description about reserved image names is shown in TUI.

BUG FIXES... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.7.3-19) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.7.2-39

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/Aug/17).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.10.46-1.
• ocs-restore-mdisks: support wildcard for device name. E.g., ocs-restore-mdisks -b -a choose -p "-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -j2 -c -scr -p true" focal-mbr-20210531 sd*
• ocs-restore-mdisks: "all" can be used as all non-busy local disks Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/96f1b89d10 It will countdown 15 secs, not 7 secs before going on for the device name is assigned as "all"
• Update USAGE about the option -j2 for ocs-sr. Add warning messages about skipping option "-j2" (clone_hidden_data) when it's in restoreparts. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/361/
• Package python3-crypto was removed since it's not used in Clonezilla live.
• Add short options -bm & -em for the beginner/expert modes in: drbl-ocs, ocs-live-feed-img, ocs-onthefly, ocs-restore-mdisks, and ocs-sr.
• Support mounting bitlocker device as image repository. Thanks to fiddyschmitt for requesting this. Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/58
• ocs-clean-part-fs is renamed as ocs-clean-disk-part-fs.
• Add the mechanism to clean the RAID metadata in disk in ocs-clean-disk-part-fs.
• Improve the mechanism to expand LVM when -k1 (hence -r) is enabled.
• ocs-expand-lvm: add a new program to expand LVM.
• ocs-resize-part: instead of checking device format, check if it exists.
• Append "--force" to the "--rescue" option for Partclone to run in rescue mode. Ref: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/issues/237#issuecomment-863739323... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.7.2-38) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.7.1-22

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/May/30).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.10.40-1.
• Package systemd was updated to 248.3-1, and this might have fixed this issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986721
• Add "VGA with large font & To RAM" (using nomodeset) in the boot menu, and move "KMS with large font & To RAM" to submenu. This can be an alternative solution for jfbterm not working in KMS mode for some VGA cards.
• Add ocs-park-disks before rebooting/halting in Clonezilla live. Thanks DDD for this requesting. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/364/
• Improve to process the volume header of Veracrypt. Add two files: ocs-save-veracrypt-vh & ocs-restore-veracrypt-vh Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/76c9794d/
• Add "--force" for vgcfgrestore to force metadata restore even with thin pool LVs.
• Add boot parameter echo_ocs_repository, so that when it's assigned as "no", the prompt about mounting image repository can be hidden. Thanks to ottokang for asking this.
• Update singularity-debian-ocs.def: include ezio instead of ezio-static
• Disable sleep and hibernate for live system. Ref: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted/-/issues/149
• Manually applied the patches for timeout and exit code for ocs-iso and ocs-live-dev. Thanks to Vitaly for these MRs. Ref: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/merge_requests/44 https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/merge_requests/45
• ocs-live-feed-img: make timeout_max shorter as "60".
• Not to detect wifi device linking status for ocs-live-netcfg. Add wl.* to net device list.
• Boot menu: Set KMS+To RAM and To RAM at 1st and 2nd level of boot menu. Remove words "Default settings" from the boot menu. Thanks to Lord65 for this suggestion.
• ocs-sr: change -sspt as -scpt. Add an option to force choosing disk name in saveparts mode in the expert mode.
• Add -gb/-cb in the advanced menu of ocs-sr so that b2sum can be used to create the checksum of image files. Thanks to Ramon Fischer for this suggestion. Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/52
• Switch to use b2sum instead of md5sum in chksum_cmd_for_files_in_dev of drbl-ocs.conf.
• Add -ssnf, --skip-set-netboot-first in the dcs, i.e., drbl-ocs so that the variable efi_netboot_1st_in_nvram in drbl-ocs.conf can be changed when running dcs.
• Add the option -sspt, --skip-save-part-table for ocs-sr & drbl-ocs. The allows to save and restore a whole disk without any partition by dd. E.g., save: ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -sspt -z9p -i 4096 -sfsck -senc -p choose saveparts my-img sda restore: ocs-sr -e1 auto -e2 -t -r -j2 -c -k -scr -p choose -f sda restoreparts my-img sda Thanks to Steven Lewis for asking this. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/304465b85a
• ocs_chkimg: do not exit if no partition table. This allows the image saved for whole disk as a file system (e.g., /dev/sda) by saving mode saveparts.
• Include package jq. Thanks to Rumata Estorskiy for asking this: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/issues/57... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.7.1-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.7.0-10

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/Jan/27).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.10.9-1.
• Include exfatprogs instead of exfat-utils.
• Include package glances, ipv6calc, atop, usbtop, bashtop, python3-psutil, vnstat and iperf3.
• Add package f3 in Clonezilla/DRBL/GParted live. Thanks to timgmooney at hotmail com for this suggestion.
• ocs-sr: make --rescue work for ocs-onthefly to call ocs-sr. Thanks to huh for reporting this issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/ba2d28a4ef/
• prep-ocsroot: add an option to fsck repository file system before mounting local one. Thanks to Bohdan for this idea. Ref: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/issues/53
• Better mechanism to find LIVE_MEDIA in function get_live_media_mnt_point of ocs-functions. This allows persistence in the live-boot to work with Clonezilla live. Thanks to Bohdan for asking persistence feature.
• ocs-sr: Support customized auto-gen image name. Key name: productname, FQDN, UUID, MAC, year, date, time (case insensitive). It can be any combination, just make beginning with "autoname-". If key name is not any one of the above, it will be shown as itself. E.g., autoname-fox-year-date-time-uuid -> fox-2020-1227-2336-564d41fc-9d80-20ac-c844-bda6a392d4c6
• ocs-sr: support more time-related format for "autoname-": Four new key names: month, day, hour, minute (case insensitive), e.g., autoname-tiger-month-day-year-hour-minute -> tiger-12-31-2020-23-15. In addition, datefmt_* can be used to assign the format from "date" command. E.g., autoname-fox-datefmt_%Y%m%d -> fox-20210109 autoname-fox-datefmt_%Y-datefmt_%m%d -> fox-2021-0109
• Add support for scheme about samba_server with version assigned as: smb1, smb1.0, smb2, smb2.0, smb2.1, smb3, smb3.0, smb3.11, and smb3.1.1. in ocs-live-repository so that the cifs version can be assigned. Thanks to ottokang for this idea. Ref: https://groups.google.com/g/ocs-clonezilla/c/M0eEV9ClO4k/m/FlW06koMBwAJ
• Improve the support for Linux software RAID. Allow something lie /dev/md126 can be a partition, too. Thanks to Jorge Fábregas (jorge.fabregas at gmail com) for asking and testing.
• Add language setting (en_US) in grub.cfg.
• Change the date-time format for auto*name as like my-2020-1220-0221-img, was my-2020-12-20-0221-img.
• Show file system and partition size in the TUI when listing partitions in restoreparts.
• Language file es_ES was updated. Thanks to Juan Ramón Martínez.
• Package ezio instead of ezio-static is used since it can depend on different versions of libtorrent. It was updated to version 1.1.11. An issue about uploading too early was fixed.
• Reduce ezio_cache_ratio from 0.7 to 0.5 in drbl-ocs.conf.
• The devices to be deployed by BT mode will be run together. No more one device by another device.
• Add leecher mode (-l|--for-leecher) in ocs-btsrv.
• As suggested by ottokang _at gmail com and https://lwn.net/Articles/244829/, noatime implies nodiratime. Therefore remove nodiratime in the option of mount command.
• ocs-sr: destination disk can be assigned by serialno when restoring.
• ocs-onthefly: source and destination device can be assigned by serialno.
• The serial no of disk device is now in the short format, not the long one from udevadm. Thanks to LinuxOpa for clarifying this. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/support-requests/143/
• When ocs-sr is in saving mode, the DEVICE name can also be assigned by: For disk: PTUUID or SERIALNO, e.g., PTUUID=03c8b280-47aa-4881-aca5-9b9c66fe28c7. If there are spaces in SERIALNO, replace every space by "_". For partition: UUID or PARTUUID, e.g., UUID=0b51ce79-7bc0-4111-8a40-839461a9b12f"... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.7.0-10) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
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ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.7-28
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• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2020/Nov/02).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.9.1-1.
• Add Korean support. Thanks to Hyeonmin Oh and 박규민.
• Format the parameters of ocs-* command about the device name so that it can be with or without /dev/, e.g., /dev/sda or sda. Thanks to Tsutsukakushi and MichaIng. Ref: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/merge_requests/4
• Do not suppress the stdout/stderr messages when running dd in ocs-restore-[em]br.
• ocs-expand-gpt-pt/ocs-expand-mbr-pt: No need to check since we are creating new partition table and should not care about the destination disk's format is GPT or MBR. Add prompt about the option -icds when failing to creating the partition table on the smaller disk.
• Save OS-related info in the image dir as the file name Info-OS-prober.txt Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/7ddac80b9f
• Packge live-boot was updated to 1:20201022-drbl1, which was patched to have a mechanism for netboot via iPXE with static IP address, no DHCP. Ref: https://salsa.debian.org/stevenshiau-guest/live-boot/-/commit/a2a3ce02b2089abee2765bb3c61ddf49d8cf2db0 https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b84f557985/
• ocs-sr's option -f|--from-part-in-img is changed as -f|--from-part since it now supports both from an image and a device.
• Implement a better mechanism to run ocs-onthefly: Now ocs-onthefly mainly uses ocs-sr to save the pseudo image, and let partclone do the device to device clone. This is similar to that of Clonezilla lite server. Due to this improvement, some major changes for ocs-othefly in order to sync with that of ocs-sr:
• These options have been changed to totally different meanings: -d|--destination|--target was -t|--target. -po|--port was -p|--port. --net-filter was -i|--filter. -p|-pa|--postaction was -pa|--postaction. -u|--use-nuttcp was -u|--use-netcat.
• New options: -t|--no-restore-mbr -t1|--restore-raw-mbr -t2|--no-restore-ebr
• By default, the network cloning is changed to use zstd to compress the data instead of gzip.
• ocs-update-initrd: Remove useless prompt.
• cnvt-ocs-dev: dev-fs.list is now converted, too. Add a tag file device_name_converted.info in the converted image.
• For drbl-ocs.conf: Remove: PARTCLONE_RESTORE_ONTHEFLY_OPT_INIT Add: ONTHEFLY_NET_PIPE="nuttcp" NC_PORT_DEFAULT="9000" PARTCLONE_LOG="/var/log/partclone.log"
• If a disk has not any partition, it can not be the source for ocs-onthefly. It will just quit to avoiding confusion.
• Add "--rsyncable" for zstd saving.
• Since zstdmt is equivalent to zstd -T0, remove "-T${cpu_no}" in extra_zstdmt_opt.
• Use -np|--net-pipe PROGRAM instead of -u|--use-netcat in ocs-onthefly so that it's easier to switch, and it can be selected in the expert mode.
• Add uuid-runtime, scsitools, blktool, safecopy and gpart to the packages list of clonezilla live.
• Add option -rvd to ocs-onthefly so that we can choose to remove the NTFS volume dirty flag in source NTFS file system before cloning it.
• Add support for loop devices: Disk images attaches as block devices. Thanks to MichaIng. Ref: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/merge_requests/43
• Newer zip can create zip file larger than 2 GB. Hence ocs-live-dev should use zip to create the recovery zip file, not force to change that to tar.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.7-28) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.6-15

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2020/Jun/30).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.7.6-1.
• ocs-iso, ocs-live-dev: sync syslinux-related files when copying syslinux exec files.
• When creating recovery iso/zip file, if it's in Clonezilla live environment, we have those syslinux files. Use that first so the version mismatch can be avoided. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/support-requests/127/
• Move grub-header.cfg from bootx64.efi to grub.cfg so that it's more flexible.
• To avoid conflict with the patch of grub in CentOS/Fedora, for GRUB EFI NB MAC/IP config style, the netboot file is now like grub.cfg-drbl-00:50:56:01:01:01 and grub.cfg-drbl-192.168.177.2 not grub.cfg-01-* anymore.
• Add xen-tools
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.14. The codes about xfs was updated to be 4.20.0.
• Package exfat-fuse was removed since the kernel has module for that.
• A better mechanism to deal with linuxefi/initrdefi or linux/initrd in the grub config was added.

BUG FIXES... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.6-15) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.5-21

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2020/Apr/28).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.5.17-1.
• Neglect the line "last-lba:..." for the GPT partition table. This allows something like: 64 GB disk with a 20 GB NTFS partition, disk clone to >= 20 GB disk. This is harmless when same sizes of disk cloning or smaller to larger case. The option -icds is required when larger disk is cloned/restored to smaller one, no need to use -k1 in this case. Thanks to panreyes for this idea. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/342/
• Package pax was included.
• Add scdaemon clonezilla live. Thanks to nurupo for suggesting this.
• Package ufsutils was removed since it's not available in Debian Sid repository.
• Package pxz was removed since it's replaced by pixz in Clonezilla.
• Add batch mode, and instead of countdown, pause it when rc is not 0 for ocs-run-boot-param.
• Add a new program ocs-live-swap-kernel which can be used to swap Linux kernel and modules in clonezilla live.
• Add -z9p in the TUI menu of beginner mode, and now pzstd is replaced by zstdmt when the option -z9p is chosen. Thanks to Lord65 for this suggestion. Ref: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/1192#issuecomment-397599977
• BUG FIXES... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.5-21) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.4-10

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2020/Mar/09).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.4.19-1.
• Language files were updated: ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, it_IT, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK and tr_TR. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Greg Hefty, Gianfranco Gentili, Akira YOSHIYAMA, Kris, ondrej dzivy balucha, and Volkan Gezer.
• Improve ocs-restore-mdisks by adding option -a|--last-action to separate the last action before it's finished. Thanks to Brian Balzer for asking this. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/366eeabc42/
• Include packages nvme-cli and scrub in Clonezilla live. Thanks to Suncatcher for suggesting this.
• Include some more packages: tmux, mtr-tiny, dcfldd, and iotop.
• Add bluetooth related packages in DRBL/Clonezilla live packages list: bluetooth, bluez and bluez-tools. Thanks to izo1 for this idea.
• Let a bare block device with a file system (e.g, /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1), which we treat as a partition, can be chosen as the destination disk when not saving.
• New upstream gen-torrent-from-ptcl (from partclone_create_torrent.py), use python3: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tjjh89017/ezio/migrate_to_py3/utils/partclone_create_torrent.py
• Remove archivemount and cloudfuse from packages list of clonezilla live since: (1) It requires fuse v2 but now only fuse v3 is available in Debian Sid. (2) It's not maintained for many years. (3) It's not used basically. The swift repository is temporarily removed from prep-ocsroot dialog menu.
• Add s3ql in the packages list so that user can manually mount swift/S3 cloud storage.
• Remove nonempty from sshfs mounting since fuse3 has used it by default. Ref: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/commit/0bef21e8
• Add a workaround for singularity-debian-ocs.def so that the weird keyboard-configuration won't be asked interactively.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.4-10) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.3-7

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Oct/24).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.3.7-1.
• Update Brazilian Portuguese translation. Thank to Rafael Fontenelle for updating that. Ref: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/drbl/merge_requests/13
• An option "-ps" or "--play-sound" was added in expert mode so that when Clonezilla job is done, a sound can be played. Thanks to David McCracken for suggesting this.
• Add an option -icol for ocs-live-feed-img which can be used to skip checking the running environment is Clonezilla live or not.
• Add a Singularity recipe sample file singularity-debian-ocs.def which can be used to create a Singularity image.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.3-7) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.2-15
• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Sep/03).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.2.9-2.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.13+git0819-2f1830e-drbl1.
• Remove zfs-fuse since it's too old. The support for zfs mounting using openzfs can be found in Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live >= 20190903 releases.
• Package partclone-utils was updated with new upstream on Aug/29/2019: https://github.com/prekageo/partclone-utils
• Modify parameters about BT in drbl-ocs.conf: Use gen-torrent-from-ptcl (ezio-ptcl) to create torrent file from torrent.info, not using transmission-create anymore. This could save a lot of time when the source image is big.
• Remove "-t 3 -k 60" from ezio_seeder_opt, i.e., keep ezio seeder in the server all the time until it's killed by ocs-live-feed-img stop.
• Add a new sample program custom-ocs-3.
BUG FIXES
• Package live-tools was updated to 20190627. The issue about poweroff/reboot should have been fixed: failed to execute shutdown binary freezing execution.
• Add thin-provisioning-tools in drbl/clonezilla live packages list, and device-mapper-persistent-data in the PKG_TO_QUERY of drbl.conf. Thanks to Tseng Wynn (wynn1212 at gmail com) for reporting this bug.
• Fix a typo in zh_TW.UTF-8. Thanks to Chih-Hsuan Yen: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/drbl/merge_requests/12
• Avoid torrent.info created by Partclone being included in the torrent file. This should solve the issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_server_edition/thread/15c3efbffa and https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/aba35adf97
• Separate 32-bit and 64-bit syslinux when running makeboot.sh. Thanks to Martin Mokrejs for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/326/
• Update the mechanism to generate new machine-id for restored GNU/Linux. Thanks to Peter Sun for reporting the issue and providing the solution.
• Add option -iui for ocs-onthefly, and implement the ocs-update-initrd for restored GNU/Linux.
• Bug fixed: the source IP address for disk to remote disk was not shown in the source (server) side when there is one NIC configured.

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.2-15) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.1-25

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Jul/07).
• Linux kernel was updated to 4.19.37-5.
• Package live-config was updated to 5.20190519.drbl1.
• Make sure label will have one name only in update-efi-nvram-boot-entry.
• Improve the mechanism to update uEFI nvram boot entry. It's the same way as boot-local-efi.cfg.
• Default to run ocs-update-initrd for the restored OS when running ocs-sr. This helps to make initramfs work for different hardware, especially the GNU/Linux distribution which uses dracut, e.g., CentOS. The option "-iui" can be used for ocs-sr to ignore running ocs-update-initrd.
• Language files were updated: ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, it_IT, ja_JP, pl_PL, and tr_TR. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Greg Hefty, Gianfranco Gentili, Akira YOSHIYAMA, Kris, and Volkan Gezer.
• The boot menu was sorted. KMS with large font (for HiDPI monitor) is now at 1st level with hotkey "l". Two more menus were added in uEFI boot menu: 1. uEFI firmware setup 2. Clonezilla live version info
• The mechanism to search local OS on the 1st hard drive of uEFI machine was updated. Now the OS name can be shown in the boot menu if it's found.
• Package rdfind was added in Clonezilla live.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.1-25) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.0-37

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Apr/20).
• From this release the AMD64 version works for uEFI secure boot.
• Linux kernel was updated to 4.19.28-2.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.12+git00e0212.
• Package ezio-static was updated to 1.1.8.
• Package vbetool was added. Thanks to Joerg Schiermeier for asking this
• Package mbmon was added.
• Add USB NIC modules in initramfs of live system. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_server_edition/thread/de7c4f810a/
• A new mode for Clonezilla lite server was added: massive deployment from raw device using bittorrent mechanism. About the usage, please check https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/12_lite_server_BT_from_dev
• For Clonezilla lite sever, change ezio_seeder_extra_opt as ezio_seeder_opt. Add two more options: ezio_leecher_opt and ezio_common_opt in drbl-ocs.conf. These three options can also be overwritten if it's assigned in boot parameters.
• Assign "-t 1" for ezio_leecher_opt so that ezio will timeout in 1 min.
• Add nuttcp as an alternative to netcat in ocs-onthefly. Add dialog for choosing compression algorithm in expert mode. Option "-u" was added in the dialog of expert mode to use nuttcp.
• To avoid OOM killer to kill ezio, we use the multi torrent files support (ezio >= 1.1.6) and limit the cache size. It can be tuned by ezio_cache_ratio in drbl-ocs.conf.
• Add a mechanism to reuse image for BT from raw device mode. The option -mdst-img can be used to assign the existing pseudo image.... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.6.0-37) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.5.6-22

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Jan/08).
• Linux kernel was updated to 4.19.13-1.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.12+gitfeb58af.
• Package ldmtool and haveged were added.
• Package curl was added. Thanks to andrew441973 for asking this.
• Package network-manager was added so that user can use "nmtui" to configure network if it's necessary, especially for wifi.
• Make unknown fs as "dd", and the image name for partition like: sda3.dd-img.aa is now a legacy. It's replaced by sda3.dd-ptcl-img.lzma.aa. Rewrite the same mechanism in ocs-onthefly.
• In addition to massive-deployment mode, the interactive-client mode was added so that lite server can provide the ability to enter interactive mode of Clonezilla live in the clients.
• Let live-build 20180618 handle uEFI boot, so ocs-put-signed-grub2-efi-bldr and ocs-gen-grub2-efi-bldr are deprecated. The changes:
  • /boot/grub/efiboot.img is /boot/grub/efi.img now.
  • /EFI/boot/grub.cfg is moved to /boot/grub/grub.cfg now.
• Temporarily disable dislocker-find in ocs-get-part-info due to some issues: (1) It's broken in Debian Sid: https://bugs.debian.org/906430; (2) https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/e1264596... read more

This release of Clonezilla live (2.5.6-21) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2018/Aug/12).
* Linux kernel was updated to 4.17.8-1.
* Language file ca_ES was updated. Thanks to René Mérou.
* Add Polish language files. Thanks to kris .
* Live-boot was updated to 1:20180603-drbl1 which applied patches from https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/298/. The carrier of NIC will be detected before going on. Thanks to Michal Zatloukal.
* Package name btrfs-tools was replaced by btrfs-progs in Debian and Ubuntu.
* Add package ipmitool in Clonezilla live.
* Add ocs-iso-2-onie which can be used to turn Clonezilla iso to ONIE image. It's based on the what Luca Boccassi has patched to Debian live. Ref: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/merge_requests/4... read more