Hi,

omitting the -C option does not work when restoring to a file (as
expected). I also created SHA1 checksums in order to verify the image is OK.

Mounting the partition from an image created with dd works, so it seems
this is really a bug in clonezilla or partclone.

Regards,
Andreas


On 01.09.2010 17:15, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> I restore the image to a file and the partition holding the file is
> large enough to hold the restored partition. I can try it again omitting
> the -C option of partclone.restore but I am quite sure that it won't
> make a difference.
> 
> By the way: partclone.restore is v0.2.14 and partclone.extfs is the
> version included in clonezilla live 1.2.5-35.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> On 01.09.2010 16:44, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> The error message: "EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 47863659
>> exceeds size of
>> device (47712800 blocks)"
>> Maybe you have to check the destination partition size is equal or
>> larger than the source one.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> On 2010年08月31日 16:37, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently made an image of my HDD using clonezilla live and discovered
>>> a problem with the partclone image of an ext4 partition on that HDD. The
>>> ext4 partition is the root "/" partition of a Fedora 13 installation.
>>>
>>> Problem description:
>>>
>>> After creating an image (with gzip compression) of the HDD I ran
>>>
>>> # cat sda3.ext4-ptcl-img.gz | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -o
>>> sda3.img
>>>
>>> to obtain "sda3.img" which I want to loop mount using the command
>>>
>>> # mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro sda3.img /media/ext4test/
>>>
>>> yielding the following error output from mount
>>>
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>>>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>        dmesg | tail  or so
>>>
>>> the corresponding dmesg output is
>>>
>>> EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 47863659 exceeds size of
>>> device (47712800 blocks)
>>>
>>> I searched the web to find out if the problem is more widespread, but I
>>> did not (yet) find anything clonezilla/partclone related.
>>>
>>> The partition itself is OK since Fedora 13 boots flawlessly from it and
>>> fsck does not report any errors. However, due to the above error I
>>> cannot run fsck on the file "sda3.img". The error happens with both, the
>>> 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of Fedora 13.
>>>
>>> Previously I never had problems with clonezilla and ext3 partitions. I
>>> hit this error using clonezilla-live-1.2.5-35-i686.iso and
>>> clonezilla-live-20100721-lucid.iso (the latest stable versions of
>>> clonezilla live).
>>>
>>> Additional information is attached.
>>>
>>> Did I miss an option in the mount command? Is there something else in
>>> the procedure I am using?
>>>
>>> I highly appreciate any help in resolving this problem.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: The "/boot" partition on that HDD also uses ext4 and it can be loop
>>> mounted without any problems from an image using the procedure as
>>> described above.
>>>
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