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MichaIng posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Solved itself. For completeness I attached a screenshot of the block log from yesterday. But today this did not happen anymore.
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It detects Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml. Best regards, Micha
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Is this information actually still true? Debian GRUB supports secure boot without any non-free packages. Since this was the major reason to have the alternative Clonezilla Live, I am hence wondering whether it can be dropped altogether.
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We had a hard time investigating the following error: # sgdisk -e image.img ... Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 2014 blocks! Try reducing the partition table size by 8056 entries. (Use the 's' item on the experts' menu.) Aborting write of new partition table. The image is sized to cover the end of the last partition + 34 sectors for the backup GPT, which contains the default 128 entries and hence has the default size of 32 sectors + header. The overlap of 2014 blocks...
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mkfs.fat: https://manpages.debian.org/mkfs.fat With -s option you can define the cluster size as a multiple of the sector size. But default, however, it uses 1 sector per cluster for such rather small boot partitions.
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That is great, many thanks. I'll keep creating images with a valid number of clusters, but it's good to be able to browse them regardless.
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Ah sorry it is actually all good. I recognised just now that the number of clusters in the affected FAT filesystems was actually some hundreds lower than expected. Looks like the remaining space is used for metadata. While Windows and Linux have no issues to access the filesystem and also fsck does not return an error, it does return a warning about the number of clusters and that "some systems might have issues with this". After reducing the cluster size to 1024, 7-Zip can perfectly access it. However,...
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I love 7-Zip for being able to open and browse raw disk image files with partition tables and partitions with support for many Linux filesystem types, a feature which native Windows itself surprisingly keeps lacking. However, I recognised that 7-Zip cannot open FAT32 filesystems with non-default cluster size. By default, when creating a FAT32 filesystem on Linux, it has 1 sector for 1 cluster, usually 512 bytes. This is not always optimal, also Windows uses larger cluster sizes by default, depending...
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But it is not a zip program. They don't create zip files for user consumption. It is installer creation tool, similar to NSIS and Inno. If it's not a zip file, why do they give it a zip extension, and why do you want 7-Zip to be able to handle it as zip file? There is a reason for why standards exist, to be robust and failsafe across different platforms. The more you bend a standard, the more it looses its purpose. There are other cases where non-standard archives are used by software, like OVA,...
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Jep, just note that a bloated registry does not have any influence on performance and just consumes tiny disk space anyway. So it's more about the feeling of a clean OS with portable software. And indeed there is portable software that still writes to the registry, which is what I blamed above to be not what I expect to be fully portable. But that's a question of definitions and expectations ;).
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Now I see the difference in user name vs display name :). Benefits of portable software: No install/uninstall (of the software itself) required, a slight time saver and it "feels" more handy. All files in one place, so you can have an external drive/USB flash with software on it to plug into different systems and run OOTB. Also system backups/migrations are easier. Jep having a single-click settings.reg is already great, but it is even easier to backup/migrate a whole portable executable directory...
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I do not have this issue and never had. Using the RAMdisk mainly to download installers and run them. So it must be related to your RAMdisk configuration. I use NTFS as well with dynamic allocated size, although had fixed size before as well without issues. Everything else I left default. So you should paste some more details of your config.
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Jep sorry for saying it, as said I am just biased by experiences I made in a forum I was taking care of. I will edit the sentence out in my first reply.
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Ah lol jep w77 is who I mean and in case other devs, didn't have a closer look ;). What makes a real portable program IMO is one that does not actively write to any location outside of its own directory (or to temp/RAM of course), so that no things like configs/settings/registry entries and of course no heavier installed drivers/hooks and stuff are left on the system, e.g. after detatching a USB flash with the portable software on it. Not sure if this meets what you call "stealth". That it leaves...
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Ah lol jep w77 is who I mean and in case other devs, didn't have a closer look ;). What makes a real portable program IMO is one that does not actively write to any location outside of its own directory (or to temp/RAM of course), so that no things like configs/settings/registry entries and of course no heavier installed drivers/hooks and stuff are left on the system, e.g. after detatching a USB flash with the portable software on it. Not sure if this meets what you call "stealth". That it leaves...
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Ah lol jep w77 is who I mean. What makes a real portable program IMO is one that does not actively write to any location outside of its own directory (or to temp/RAM of course), so that no things like configs/settings/registry entries and of course no heavier installed drivers/hooks and stuff are left on the system, e.g. after detatching a USB flash with the portable software on it. Not sure if this meets what you call "stealth". That it leaves traces created by the system itself, e.g. in system...
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Ah okay this is kinda pseudo-portable then, like Windows Firewall Notifier when used for notifications. The software itself does not need to be installed at first, but to be (fully) usable it needs to install some driver/hook/whatever. Yeah not what I interpret as "portable" software somehow, since there are more than traces left if you just dettach/remove it. So not sure if the effort of realising this is worth it. But this is up to v77 of course :).
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Ah, forgot to mention that I don't use a drive letter but a mount point at C:\RamDisk while having the drive letter unused/invisible. Perhaps this makes the difference then. Note that I am no ImDisk dev, I just found and jumped in the tickets here randomly today ;). Got it about the other RAMdisk implementations. I am just a bid biased I think because of nasty ways of advertising on other platforms/forums :).
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Agree, a driver is installed, so offering a portable version would also give the wrong impression that it does not install something.
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I do not have this issue and never had. Using the RAMdisk mainly to download installers and run them. So it must be related to your RAMdisk configuration. I use NTFS as well with dynamic allocated size, although had fixed size before as well without issues. Everything else I left default. So you should paste some more details of your config. You promote Primo here but there is the tiny difference that Primo is a paid and closed source RAMdisk implementation while ImDisk is FOSS. If you mention alternatives,...
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