Hi, I ran fsck on the disk and I also verified the image using a SHA1 checksum. The image is rather large and contains sensitive data. However, I will try to create an image with smaller size and without any sensitive data showing the same problem. As soon as I succeeded in doing so I will provide that image to you.
Regards, Andreas On 04.09.2010 09:32, Steven Shiau wrote: > Did you try to run fsck to make sure the image is OK? > Or if the partition image does not contain sensitive/classified data, is > that possible you can provide the image for us to check that? > > Steven. > > On 2010年09月04日 06:44, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: >> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >>>>> >>>>> Show off your parallel programming skills. >>>>> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Clonezilla-live mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >>>> >>>> Show off your parallel programming skills. >>>> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Clonezilla-live mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >>> >>> Show off your parallel programming skills. >>> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Clonezilla-live mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >> >> Show off your parallel programming skills. >> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> > -- Univ.Ass. 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