On 1 December 2010 18:32, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/1/2010 11:02 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>>> >>>> I tried to use clonezilla. >>>> >>>> While there are some bits of good software clonezilla fails epically >>>> at putting these pieces together so that they can be actually used. >>>> >>>> 1) everything is needlessly cryptic and there are virtually no docs >>> >>> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/ >>> >>> While I agree with some of your points regarding usability, you have an >>> odd way of asking for help. >>> >> >> I succeeded in making a 1:1 disk copy even without this guide. The >> process is obvious and streamlined (although with some annoying >> bloat). > >> >> >> The issue is I don't want a 1:1 image and not only there is no >> documentation on doing that, AFAICT it is not reasonably possible. >> >> Hence I am merely reporting here that I tried to use clonezilla for >> that, it failed for me, and I failed to find where the source has any >> head or tail while looking if such feature could be added. > > Saying that a piece of software wasn't designed to do something that you > wish it did is somewhat different from saying that the software sucks. I > think the 3 approaches would be to use the proportional resize, clone to
When it can do proportional sizes adding the ability to specify the sizes is an obvious feature. I can understand that the resizing could be new and new user input requires new UI parts but .. > identical sizes then resize the last partition and filesystem to include the > extra space, or to fdisk your own followed by cloning individual partition for this gparted is suggested but it is not included on the CD? WTF? This also means that you have to set up the bootloader manually, not only the partition table. You are getting to the point when using clonezilla at all is of questionable benefit. You can also run partclone manually. > images into them, resizing the filesystems after the copy (and installing > grub yourself). I agree its not easy and when I've needed to do it I've > cheated by using Ghost to do windows and tar to manually built filesystems > for Linux to get an initial image sized correctly for the clonezilla master. > If I were adding functionality it would be to make it able to automate the > partition/filesystem/grub setup to a point where a tar image would drop in > so it could do a bare-metal restore of a tar backup made from a live system. > But, that's another thing it wasn't designed to do... Live system backups have issues. You sometimes backup temporary/run time files that should not be there or not backup files which are covered by mounts. Also tar does not have extensions for all filesystem features. > > Without looking at the source, I'd think there must be a point where it > calculates the proportional-resize values that you could modify to do what > you want. Looking at the source it even does not have a one-line file saying how to build the media. Surely the authors made some notes over the years of development but it looks like the source is not meant to be used by people outside of the development team, it does not include the notes on how it is used. Thanks Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
