Partclone, huh?  Never heard of that one!  Certainly explains it!

Thanks Steven,  your suggestion worked exactly as advertized.

I appreciate the help.

Maybe the FAQ should be updated?

Thanks again,

Chris


Quoting Steven Shiau <[email protected]>:

>
> Chris wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> With previous versions, I know you used to be able to uncompress,    
>> concatenate then restore the nfts .img files, then mount the   
>> resulting file using the loopback option, as stated in the FAQ:
>>
>> ---------------------<snip>------------------------------------------
>> 1. Prepare a large disk in Linux
>> 2. Say if your image is /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/, and the image is  
>>   /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa, hda1.ntfs-img.ab...
>> run
>> "file /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa"
>> to see it's gzip, bzip or lzop image. Say it's gzip, then you can run
>> cat /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c |   
>> ntfsclone  --restore-image -o hda1.img -
>> Then you will have a "hda1.img" which you can mount it by
>> mount -o loop -t ntfs hda1.img /mnt
>> -------------</snip>-------------------------------------------------
>>
>> However, this is not working anymore, using Clonezilla Live 1.2.2.
>>
>> First, the image files are named hda1.vfat-ptcl-img.gz.a?  (note   
>> the  "ptcl" and that the '?' is a wildcard).
>>
>> When I do the above on these split-image files I get:
>>
>> # cat dir/hda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* |gzip -d -c |ntfsclone    
>> --restore-image -o hda2.img -
>>
> The image was saved by partclone, not ntfsclone. Therefore you have to
> run like this:
>
> 1. touch hda2.img
>
> 2. cat dir/hda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* |gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C
> -s - -o hda2.img
>
> (I think We will improve partclone.restore so that in the future you do
> not have to touch hda2.img first)
>
> Please let us know your results.
>
> Steven.
>> ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
>> ERROR: Input file is not an image! (invalid magic)
>>
>> I am using the most recent ntfsprogs avaialable(as you can see).    
>> Is  there any way to do this anymore?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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