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I know how to run CloneZilla from a bootable USB or DVD. No worries. How do I install and run CloneZilla as a desktop utility?
I could get the bits onto /usr/local but I could never make things run.
It is critical to use a bootable media edition of CloneZilla when working with a workstation primary drive and file systems. A running system leaves too many footprints -- that are constantly changing -- to try and make a copy while those file systems are in active use.
However, I have other "data drives" that I wish to work with. CloneZilla offers the right set of tools to move things among drives and file systems. I simply want to launch CloneZilla much as I would launch 'gparted' or 'nautilus.'
clonezilla is in the Ubuntu (and therefore Mint) repos. apt install clonezilla
or install through the Software Manager or Synaptic.
Note that the installed version of clonezilla is run from the command line.
Thanks, I get this far. NOTE -- You can also get it from Software Manager.
The shell script gets planted at /usr/sbin/clonezilla and will launch just fine. However, it doesn't want to see or read or write any of my available file systems.
I want to:
select one of my file systems to clone
select any one of my available file systems as the source
select any one of my other file systems as the destination
write the source fs contents to the destination as some sort of data file.
repeat for my group of source file systems
From the command line, CloneZilla (1) cannot read what I cannot select, and (2) cannot write to what I cannot select.
The file, /usr/sbin/clonezilla is a shell script. I'm trying to make sense of it now.
It would not surprise me if there are built-in assumptions from the bootable media implementation.
Thanks in advance for any help and helpers,
~~~ 0;-/ Dan
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
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Originally Posted by SaintDanBert
Thanks, I get this far. NOTE -- You can also get it from Software Manager.
The shell script gets planted at /usr/sbin/clonezilla and will launch just fine. However, it doesn't want to see or read or write any of my available file systems.
I want to:
select one of my file systems to clone
select any one of my available file systems as the source
select any one of my other file systems as the destination
write the source fs contents to the destination as some sort of data file.
repeat for my group of source file systems
From the command line, CloneZilla (1) cannot read what I cannot select, and (2) cannot write to what I cannot select.
The file, /usr/sbin/clonezilla is a shell script. I'm trying to make sense of it now.
It would not surprise me if there are built-in assumptions from the bootable media implementation.
Thanks in advance for any help and helpers,
~~~ 0;-/ Dan
You need to make sure the file system you would like to 'clone' is NOT in use when trying to 'clone' it. This is the benefit of running clonezilla off a USB or CD/DVD. And I would suggest installing it onto a USB stick and running it from there instead.
You need to make sure the file system you would like to 'clone' is NOT in use when trying to 'clone' it.
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Much like the requirement to run as the 'root' priviledged user, it would seem apropriate for CloneZilla to test for and announce if a source file system is mounted or which ever form of busy it wants to avoid.
Do you know if it simply wants an unmounted source partition, or does it prefer other not-busy details?
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
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If a device has a mounted filesystem, clonezilla won't even offer it as a candidate for the image source.
Yep that's right, which is why I suggested you install it onto a USB and boot your PC off of it instead. As therefore the only file system that would be in use, would be the one on the USB.
Yep that's right, which is why I suggested you install it onto a USB and boot your PC off of it instead. As therefore the only file system that would be in use, would be the one on the USB.
I have two separate external, USB connected, enclosures. Both have two(2) drives installed. Some drives are a single partition/file-system. Others have multiple parititions/file-systems. I would expect that the CLI edition of CloneZilla would let me manipulate the contents of the external drives. Also, I would like to read from workstation internal partitions/file-systems. Sadly, it does not see the external drives at all so I cannot use them as a destination. It sees the workstation partitions/file-systems but won't read them either.
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
Posts: 3,881
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Originally Posted by SaintDanBert
I have two separate external, USB connected, enclosures. Both have two(2) drives installed. Some drives are a single partition/file-system. Others have multiple parititions/file-systems. I would expect that the CLI edition of CloneZilla would let me manipulate the contents of the external drives. Also, I would like to read from workstation internal partitions/file-systems. Sadly, it does not see the external drives at all so I cannot use them as a destination. It sees the workstation partitions/file-systems but won't read them either.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan
The only thing I can think of would be clonezilla is not being run with superuser/root permission?? I would suggest you get a normal USB stick (thumb drive) and install it onto there, then boot your PC from the normal USB stick (thumb drive).
I have not had any problems running it this way, I also suggest you install clonezilla onto it, within a virtual machine. As this way there is no risk to your real system (if you get the destination drive wrong, and be CAREFUL).
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I also suggest you install clonezilla onto it, within a virtual machine. As this way there is no risk to your real system (if you get the destination drive wrong, and be CAREFUL).
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I'd love to use this effort to motivate my learning about virtual machines. I've never had a pressing need to run multiple Linux instances -- until now -- and running win-dose on Linux has always seemed to be a real chore to setup. (grin) I'd welcome the help and advice or pointers to a good-enough howto...
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