On 2012-11-26 21:28, Andrew Greig wrote: > Hi all, > > I have 2 x identical Lenovo IdeaPads each 160Gb storage. I have > downloaded and burned the CD iso of Clonezilla. I set up the source > with a fixed IP of 192.168.0.44 and the target with 192.168.0.55 have > CloneZilla running on each machine and ran the command line as root > ocs-onthefly -s 192.168.0.44 -t sda from the receiving machine. > > The clone failed with the line "Failed to create the partition table on > the target device: /dev/sda ! Program terminated !!" I have Googled for > help and tried blitzing the MBR. > > I could try blitzing the whole target drive, ie delete the partions > already present. Would that be helpful?
I've not used CloneZilla before, but if you've only got to do this once, I'd probably just do it with dd and netcat: srcHost$ dd if=/dev/sda | nc -l -p 1234 dstHost$ nc srcHost 1234 | dd of=/dev/sda And optionally write a while loop on each host to send a USR1 to dd to get transfer statistics (data rate and quantity) at regular intervals: srcHost$ while pkill -USR1 ^dd; do sleep 10; done dstHost$ while pkill -USR1 ^dd; do sleep 10; done You could also put a 'pv' command in the mix to get an ETA and such. When I tried this (not using block devices; just regular files) it didn't stop when it hit the end of the file; it just sat there. This shouldn't be a problem though; just confirm that both dds have read/written the same number of bytes, and you should be fine to kill it. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia
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