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Why does my dd Full Disk Copy Keep failing at 8 GB?

I am trying to clone a 500 GB SSD to a 1TB SSD. For some reason, it keeps failing when the data being copied reaches 8GB. This is the third 1TB SSD I've tried this on and they all get stuck at the same place. I've ran the following command: dd…
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Can I restore a single partition from a Clonezilla disk image?

I was thinking of performing a Clonezilla backup and was wondering what backup mode to choose. Generally speaking, Clonezilla offers the following backup options: savedisk: Save a full disk image saveparts: Save images of specific…
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Chainload syslinux from GRUB2 - show syslinux.cfg menu

I am using a Clonezilla live USB disk to reimage systems. In accordance to what is explained in http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc my disks prompts me with the menu contained in…
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Restoring a big partition to a smaller partition with Clonezilla

Some time ago I created a backup of an EXT4 partition with Clonezilla. Now the HDD crashed and I lost some important data. The size of the image of the partition is 50GB. I tried to restore this image to a 200GB HDD but it turned out that the size…
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Failed to use partClone program to save or restore an image

I want to clone a Windows partition of a dual booted laptop which doesn't boot anymore as described in the following link. I don't know why but I can't clone a partition with Clonezilla. I only have these information as displayed in below screenshot…
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How to mount a Clonezilla img to extract files?

I have a large Clonezilla image of a CentOS server that had a 500GB drive partitioned into boot, OS, and data partitions. I would like to mount the backup image so I can extract some files as I no longer have suitable hardware or space for a VM to…
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How to increase LVM when using LUKS2 on Debian Buster

I'm running Debian Buster on a ThinkPad T420 which is equipped with a 250 GB SSD. Since I needed more disk space I used Clonezilla to clone my current Debian installation from the internal 250 GB SSD to a new 500 GB SSD connected via an USB to SATA…
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Clonezilla made a smaller image than actual drive size

I've jut got a new laptop with a 500GB SSD. The first thing that I've wanted to do is cloning the hard drive because I want to have an original copy of the entire system as is. In order to do that I've flashed a USB pendrive with Clonezilla and…
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Image HDD in Linux (functionality like Norton Ghost)

I am looking to use an embedded Linux distro such as Tiny Core as a automated recovery type tool. Basically, the user would choose to boot into Tiny Core from the boot menu, then if a USB is plugged in containing a ghost type image of the drive (it…
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Adding files to initrd makes linux not be able to read it

I'm using clonezilla-1.2.12 and need to add the Broadcom firmware to the initrd so it can netboot. (clonezilla is debian-based and debian no longer includes the firmware blobs as they're non-free. Naturally then clonezilla doesn't either.) (I can't…
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overlayfs: missing 'workdir' on CloneZilla start

I would clone my partition /dev/sda1 on Ubuntu 14.04. I've downloaded Clonezilla in order to clone this partition and be able to reinstall it later. As recommended on the CloneZilla's website, I used Tuxboot to install a CloneZilla iso on my USB…
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initramfs / UUID problems after cloning

So I just cloned a Centos7 "everything install" VM to a physical disk using VMWare Workstation and Clonezilla using the instructions here: https://www.howtoforge.com/converting-a-vmware-image-to-a-physical-machine-p2 Now, when the clone (physical…
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Merging preexisting source folders in mksquashfs

In this answer on a previous question, I found out how to modify files in a squashfs filesystem: # unsquash the filesystem to a local directory sudo cp /media/clonezilla/live/filesystem.squashfs ./ sudo unsquashfs filesystem.squashfs # now, insert…
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MX Linux 19: Clonezilla fails w/ error "syntax error near unexpected token `<"

I've created an MX-Linux 19 LiveUSB with Clonezilla (ver. 3.27.16-3) installed by Synaptic Package Manager from the MX Linux repository, which I then remastered. The remastered LiveUSB passed several tests and allowed me to install MX 19 to an SSD…
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Create a bootable clone in Linux

I have a working Linux system (Centos 6.7) which I would like to clone to a bootable hard disk. The hard disk is also internal. The purpose of the clone is for disaster recover as well as to allow me to test changes safely. On the Mac, for example,…
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