On 12/1/2010 11:02 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I tried to use clonezilla.
>>>
>>> While there are some bits of good software clonezilla fails epically
>>> at putting these pieces together so that they can be actually used.
>>>
>>> 1) everything is needlessly cryptic and there are virtually no docs
>>
>> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/
>>
>> While I agree with some of your points regarding usability, you have an
>> odd way of asking for help.
>>
>
> I succeeded in making a 1:1 disk copy even without this guide. The
> process is obvious and streamlined (although with some annoying
> bloat).
>
> The issue is I don't want a 1:1 image and not only there is no
> documentation on doing that, AFAICT it is not reasonably possible.
>
> Hence I am merely reporting here that I tried to use clonezilla for
> that, it failed for me, and I failed to find where the source has any
> head or tail while looking if such feature could be added.
Saying that a piece of software wasn't designed to do something that you
wish it did is somewhat different from saying that the software sucks.
I think the 3 approaches would be to use the proportional resize, clone
to identical sizes then resize the last partition and filesystem to
include the extra space, or to fdisk your own followed by cloning
individual partition images into them, resizing the filesystems after
the copy (and installing grub yourself). I agree its not easy and when
I've needed to do it I've cheated by using Ghost to do windows and tar
to manually built filesystems for Linux to get an initial image sized
correctly for the clonezilla master. If I were adding functionality it
would be to make it able to automate the partition/filesystem/grub setup
to a point where a tar image would drop in so it could do a bare-metal
restore of a tar backup made from a live system. But, that's another
thing it wasn't designed to do...
Without looking at the source, I'd think there must be a point where it
calculates the proportional-resize values that you could modify to do
what you want.
--
Les Mikesell
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