I just wanted to let everyone know that I have created an easy-to-use graphical tool to mount Clonezilla images, as part of my graphical drop-in replacement to Clonezilla called Rescuezilla:
Currently I'm using partclone-nbd as I found it had better support for some filesystems than the more popular partclone-utils, but I intend on switching to partclone-utils in the future because that also supports ntfsclone which is used by Clonezilla. To create a solid foundation for this work, I am unifying the many partclone-utils forks among other improvements.
It's very nice to not need to remember the specific command-line details around logically concatenating partclone images then decompressing them :-)
Unfortunately to access the final byte in a gzip-compressed images it involves decompressing all prior data. (gzip is currently the default compression in Clonezilla and Rescuezilla). This makes mounting large (50GB+) images too slow to be usable. I will try and support better compression settings in the future.
For now, I recommend advanced users who intend on relying on Image Explorer functionality to be creating uncompressed images using Clonezilla's Expert Mode, as these images work instantaneously
I am happy to do the immediate maintenance work on partclone-utils, but I have enough open-source work on my hands without becoming the long-term partclone-utils maintainer. I am hoping to get the project "upstreamed" into partclone itself once I have made some improvements.
I really recommend users interested in partclone-utils try the Image Explorer frontend. Rescuezilla will become available in the package managers of regular Linux distributions
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know that I have created an easy-to-use graphical tool to mount Clonezilla images, as part of my graphical drop-in replacement to Clonezilla called Rescuezilla:
Currently I'm using
partclone-nbdas I found it had better support for some filesystems than the more popularpartclone-utils, but I intend on switching topartclone-utilsin the future because that also supportsntfsclonewhich is used by Clonezilla. To create a solid foundation for this work, I am unifying the many partclone-utils forks among other improvements.It's very nice to not need to remember the specific command-line details around logically concatenating partclone images then decompressing them :-)
Unfortunately to access the final byte in a gzip-compressed images it involves decompressing all prior data. (gzip is currently the default compression in Clonezilla and Rescuezilla). This makes mounting large (50GB+) images too slow to be usable. I will try and support better compression settings in the future.
For now, I recommend advanced users who intend on relying on Image Explorer functionality to be creating uncompressed images using Clonezilla's Expert Mode, as these images work instantaneously
I am happy to do the immediate maintenance work on
partclone-utils, but I have enough open-source work on my hands without becoming the long-termpartclone-utilsmaintainer. I am hoping to get the project "upstreamed" into partclone itself once I have made some improvements.I really recommend users interested in
partclone-utilstry the Image Explorer frontend. Rescuezilla will become available in the package managers of regular Linux distributionsClick here to download the latest version of Rescuezilla. Also, consider contributing $1/month on the crowdfunding website Patreon so that Rescuezilla can continue to be developed!
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-12-12