[Clonezilla-user] Error at 99% partimage

[Sergi Tur Badenas]

Hi all,

First of all congratulations for this awesome application. I've been
testing clonezilla with drbl-server. All was ok configuring the server
but when I run clonezilla at a client (with network boot) saving a full
HD disk the system hangs at 99% during clonation of a VFAT partition
(FAT 32)

My partitions are:

/dev/sda1 NTFS 25 Gb
/dev/sda2 ext3 25 Gb
/dev/sda5 FAT32 110Gb
/dev/sda5 Swap

The partition that give me an error is /dev/sda5. The unique possibility
I have is to press buttons Ctrl+alt+supr, then give me an error and
reboot. The partition was almost empty (75M).

Any idea?

Thank you in advance and excuse me for my bad English,

Sergi Tur

[Steven Shiau]

Did you run any FAT filesystem scan program in your client to make sure
the file system integrity is 100% OK ?
Another choice is you can try to use "-q2" option to let Clonezilla uses
partclone instead of partimage to save the image for you.

Steven.

Post by Sergi Tur Badenas
Hi all,
First of all congratulations for this awesome application. I've been
testing clonezilla with drbl-server. All was ok configuring the server
but when I run clonezilla at a client (with network boot) saving a full
HD disk the system hangs at 99% during clonation of a VFAT partition
(FAT 32)
/dev/sda1 NTFS 25 Gb
/dev/sda2 ext3 25 Gb
/dev/sda5 FAT32 110Gb
/dev/sda5 Swap
The partition that give me an error is /dev/sda5. The unique possibility
I have is to press buttons Ctrl+alt+supr, then give me an error and
reboot. The partition was almost empty (75M).
Any idea?
Thank you in advance and excuse me for my bad English,
Sergi Tur
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[Sergi Tur Badenas]

Post by Steven Shiau
Did you run any FAT filesystem scan program in your client to make sure
the file system integrity is 100% OK ?

I run Windows XP utilities to check and defrag the disk. Any error was
found.

Post by Steven Shiau
Another choice is you can try to use "-q2" option to let Clonezilla uses
partclone instead of partimage to save the image for you.

I will try ont this later. I'tell you the results...

But I have more info about the error. When the system is hanged up at
99% I press a key (I don't remember waht key I press ;-)) and system
raises the following error:

"Can't read the following volume file: ... /stdin.001".

I found at clonezilla FAQ [1] the possible solutions:

(1) If the image is saved by lzo (-z3 option), and you put the image in
the network-based directory, maybe you can try to use gzip to save it
(-z1). Lzo need good quality network.

My error occurs when I've been cloning a HD "On the Fly" with option
device-device. I don't find any option related with compression.

Later I will try to save the image at a drbl server and I wil try this
options.

(2) If you are restoring a local image (not in network-based directory),
and the image is saved from an ext3 partition of Fedora linux. This is
the limitation of partimage. The "Blocks per group" of ext2/3 is always
32768 in partimage. However, in Fedora linux, sometimes this is always
true. Check this for more info:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4553522 You can use
upgrade to drbl 1.8.1 with drbl-partimage 0.7.2_beta2 or later. This bug
is fixed in partimage 0.7.2_beta2.

I'm clonning a Dual Boot Hard Drive with Windows XP (NTFS), Ubuntu 8.04
(ext3) and an empty FAT32 partition (the one taht fails). No Fedora.

How can I Obtain drbl-partimage 0.7.2_beta2 for Ubuntu? I found only
DRBL at sourceforge. Can I obtain the sources an compile by myself for
Ubuntu?

Fell free to ask mo for any further information It can be useful.

P.D: removing the FAT 32 partition allows the clone to work perfect.

Sergi

[1]
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=38_error_when_saving_ext2_3.faq

[Steven Shiau]

Post by Sergi Tur Badenas

Post by Steven Shiau
Did you run any FAT filesystem scan program in your client to make sure
the file system integrity is 100% OK ?

I run Windows XP utilities to check and defrag the disk. Any error was
found.

I think you mean "No" any error was found ?

Post by Sergi Tur Badenas

Post by Steven Shiau
Another choice is you can try to use "-q2" option to let Clonezilla uses
partclone instead of partimage to save the image for you.

I will try ont this later. I'tell you the results...
But I have more info about the error. When the system is hanged up at
99% I press a key (I don't remember waht key I press ;-)) and system
"Can't read the following volume file: ... /stdin.001".
(1) If the image is saved by lzo (-z3 option), and you put the image
in the network-based directory, maybe you can try to use gzip to save
it (-z1). Lzo need good quality network.
My error occurs when I've been cloning a HD "On the Fly" with option
device-device. I don't find any option related with compression.

-z3 is for device -> image, i.e. saving a disk as an image.

Post by Sergi Tur Badenas
Later I will try to save the image at a drbl server and I wil try this
options.
(2) If you are restoring a local image (not in network-based
directory), and the image is saved from an ext3 partition of Fedora
linux. This is the limitation of partimage. The "Blocks per group" of
ext2/3 is always 32768 in partimage. However, in Fedora linux,
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4553522 You can use
upgrade to drbl 1.8.1 with drbl-partimage 0.7.2_beta2 or later. This
bug is fixed in partimage 0.7.2_beta2.
I'm clonning a Dual Boot Hard Drive with Windows XP (NTFS), Ubuntu
8.04 (ext3) and an empty FAT32 partition (the one taht fails). No Fedora.

Oops... It's 0.6.7_beta2, not 0.7.2_beta2. This FAQ was fixed. Actually
now the clonezilla uses 0.6.7 stable partimage. Another approach is to
use "-q2" when you save the image, i.e. to use partclone instead of
partimage.

Post by Sergi Tur Badenas
How can I Obtain drbl-partimage 0.7.2_beta2 for Ubuntu? I found only
DRBL at sourceforge. Can I obtain the sources an compile by myself for
Ubuntu?
Fell free to ask mo for any further information It can be useful.
P.D: removing the FAT 32 partition allows the clone to work perfect.
Sergi
[1]
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=38_error_when_saving_ext2_3.faq