Questions tagged [partclone]
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Resize VFAT partition?
I'm migrating a machine to another boot drive with more space. I've done the following:
sudo partclone.vfat -c -R -o partclone.sda1.vfat.img -s /dev/sdg1
and then I created my partitions on the new device in parted, and then restored:
sudo…
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Recovery files from partclone backup image without generate a large raw disk file? (like Acronis mount tib file)?
I have a 100GB files stored in a 3TB hdd (NTFS).
I backuped it using partclone and resulted a 100GB partclone.pcl image file.
Now I want to recovery the files (I don't care about the MBR or other unnecessary staffs, I just need the files).
All…
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Dumping a single partition with dd (not the entire disk)
I have dumped the raw partition dumped via ssh from an external system using the command:
ssh [email protected] 'dd if=/dev/xvda2 bs=1M | gzip' | gunzip | dd of=xvda2.raw
As you can see, only the partition is dumped /dev/xvda2 (yes this is on…
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clonezilla - restore OS partition image to larger/smaller partition
My old disk has failed. I have made partition images of OS partition and MRB partition instead of disk image. I have a disk but its size is smaller than the OS partition image.
Is it possible to restore the OS partition image to smaller partition?…
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mount complains about exFAT when mounting partclone image of NTFS partition
I've made a backup of an NTFS partition with partclone, like this:
partclone.ntfs -cs /dev/sdk1 -o ./ntfs_backup.img
In case that's relevant: The physical hard drive was sitting in a USB dock.
Now, I'd like to compare the contents of that image…
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In LINUX: Using dd to transfer shrunk partitions on a 2TB HDD to a 500GB SSD
A source HDA (2TB mechanical HDD) has 5 partitions on it (GPT) that used to occupy the entire capacity of the 2TB HDA.
The Operating System resident on the source drive is Windows 10.
Since the majority of the 'data' partition was unused storage…
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Clonezilla part-to-part doesn't show sda2 as source
I needed to replace my 500G HDD with 256G SSD drive.
I shrunk the original partitions,
properly aligned SDD's partitions on 1 MiB (2048 sectors)
and in Parted Magic successfully transfered sda1 (old HDD) EXT4 boot partition to new sdc1 (SSD…
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