I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky. I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up data lies. The data is still there.
However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc directory to write its file system into, and if one selected the top level of the mount then all data there will disappear. I think that it ought to be clearer that it shall delete all data in that directory first, as the contents of the other drive shows. Final question: Can I use a set-up like this? /dev/sdc2 for the CZ operating system area. /dev/sdc2 for the target image. /dev/sda1 for the source partition. Regards, S. PS. USB drive has been disconnected and placed into a cupboard for safe keeping. Simon Loewen wrote: > Dear all Clonezilla users, > > Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time. As a test I decided to > see how it worked. I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I > cannot remember the exact terminology). > > Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to. I > instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /, > expecting it to write a file into it. > > No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition: > # ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/ > total 25 > -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version > -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING > dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux > dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live > dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils > > As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related > to music that I have had since 2001. All files. Everything. Yes, this > does equate to a heavy financial loss. Yes, I cannot reproduce the > data. Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes > thatI have to produce some time next year. > > > > > * Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files? The > filesystem type is ext3. * > > Regards, S. > > > PS. Of course, I thank-you in advance if I am not lectured about keeping > files in disc one partition and not having at least two or three disc > backups, but discs are not that cheap, and I had expected Clonezilla to > at least state that it was going to delete everything under the > directory. Agreed, this was still a user-error. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live -- PGP plugin for Microsoft Outlook: http://www.gpg4win.org/ PGP plugin for Thunderbird/Mozilla: http://enigmail.mozdev.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
