Kevin, Yes, if you know how to run the commands,it will be easier for you to debug and find the problem.
Steven. Kevin W. Wall wrote: > Steven Shiau wrote: > >> Kevin W. Wall wrote: >> >>> <deleted...> >>> > > >> >From what you mentioned, you used "device-device" clone option. In this >> mode, IIRC, partimage is used to clone the file system. I think maybe >> you can use "device-image" option to save an image first, then restore >> the image to target disk. Since in "device-image" mode, ntfsclone is >> used to save and restore image for NTFS file system, maybe this will be >> better. >> By doing this, we will see if the problem is due to partimage or not, so >> please tell us your results. >> BTW, in the future, we will switch to partclone to do device to device >> clone, and I think it will be better. >> > > Steven, > > You're right... I picked device-device originally. > > Instead of using Clonezilla Live to (redo) this via it's > "device-image" option, could I just drop into expert (i.e., > shell) mode and us something like this: > > # mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate target (ext disk) > # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda1 | gzip -c > >/media/sdb1/hda1.img.gz > # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda2 | gzip -c > >/media/sdb1/hda2.img.gz > # shutdown -h now > Replace 100GB drive with 250GB drive and reassemble laptop. > Boot up OpenSuSE 11.0 or Fedora 9 and restore Windows partitions. > (I have ntfsprogs RPM is installed on both.) Restore via: > # mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate source (ext disk) > # gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda1.img.gz | > ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda1 - > # gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda2.img.gz | > ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda2 - > > I know this seems like more work, but at least this way I don't risk > overwriting my new Linux partitions on the new 250GB drive, nor have > to worry about messing up the partition table or overwriting Grub on > the master boot record. > > If advisable, I could also save the images using the '-rescue' flag > on ntfsclone and use ntfstruncate to reset the bad sector list (as per > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone) on the new hard > drive. However, I really am not aware of any bad sectors on the > older 100GB hard drive. > > It's not that I don't trust Clonezilla to do this right, but rather that > I don't trust my ability to not mess up because I misinterpreted one > of Clonezilla's prompts. Also, I *am* a dinosaur and am more comfortable > with taking actions that I can see rather than having to trust that I > chose the right menu option and then trust what is going on under the > hood. > > Of course, if I can just figure out a way to tell Windows Vista to > forget about any *existing* system restore points (I have ~14GB worth!) > and just to discard all that and start saving them anew from now on, I'd > be happy to live with that too. But so far, haven't found a solution > to that, but maybe I'm just not googling for the correct terms. Even if > Windows can't see the C:\System Volume Information\ folder for some > reason, I trust the Linux NTFS code enough to be able to properly > delete that folder and recover the 14GB or so on the free list. I've > seen a few Windows forums suggest re-installing System Restore when the > restore points can't be read, but I need to read about that further before > trying it. > > Thanks in advance, > -kevin > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
