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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Can't successfully clone an HDD in Ubuntu, please help Post 302515688 by Corona688 on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 04:27:59 PM
Old 04-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Unlimitedbt
I had formatted/partitioned the destination drive in exact same manner as original
and used dd to clone
Which? Did you format and partition it -- or did you clone it with dd?

You should be able to clone the partitions and everything in one operation. Don't give it sda1, just sda, and so forth.dd if=/dev/original of=/dev/new conv=noerror,sync

Last edited by Corona688; 04-20-2011 at 05:43 PM..
 

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partclone.extfs(8)					      System Manager's Manual						partclone.extfs(8)

NAME
partclone.extfs - The utility for clone and restore an etx2/ext3 partition. SYNOPSIS
partclone.extfs [options]... [MODE] [SOURCE FILE] [OUTPUT FILE] DESCRIPTION
partclone.extfs is a part of Partclone project for ext2/3 file system. Partclone is a project like the well-known backup utility "Parti- tion Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provide utilities to back up used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system using supported library like e2fslibs. OPTIONS
-o, --output FILE Output FILE -O --overwrite FILE Output FILE, overwriting if exists -s, --source FILE Source FILE -L, --logfile FILE Log FILE -c, --clone Save to the special image format -r, --restore Restore from the special image format -b, --dev-to-dev Local device to device copy mode -D, --domain Create GNU Ddrescue domain log file from source device --offset_domain=X Add X (in bytes) to all positions reported in the domain log file -R, --rescue Continue after disk read errors -dX, --debug=X Set the debug level to X = [0|1|2] -C, --no_check Don't check device size and free space -X, --dialog Output message as Dialog Format -I, --ignore_fschk Ignore filesystem check --ignore_crc Ignore crc check error -F, --force Force progress -f, --UI-fresh Fresh times of progress -q, --quiet quiet mode, no progress update -v, --version Display partclone version -h, --help Display this help Examples: clone /dev/hda1 to hda1.img and display debug information. partclone.extfs -c -d -s /dev/hda1 -o hda1.img restore /dev/hda1 from hda1.img and display debug information. partclone.extfs -r -d -s hda1.img -o /dev/hda1 restore image from clonezilla(split, gzip,) with stdin source cat sda1.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.a* > gunzip -c | partclone.ext3 -d -r -s - -o /dev/sda1 REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <thomas@nchc.org.tw> SUPPORT
You can get support at http://partclone.org AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw> partclone 0.2.48 Nov 2007 partclone.extfs(8)
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