[mdlug] Clonezilla

[mat.enders at gmail.com]

It sounds like you tried to put an image of the disk on the same disk. This will never work. You need to boot some type of live disk Ubuntu if the machine in question is Linux or UBCD4Win if it is windows if it is a Mac I do not have a suggestion. Once you are in the rescue disks environment mount the hard drive of the machine and delete the image file. All should be well then. I user Clonezilla all of the time. If you want the image on your wife's machine then create a share on your wife's machine and then create the image across the network there. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Jim Fulner <fulner at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:47:00 
To: MDLUG<mdlug at mdlug.org>
Subject: [mdlug] Clonezilla

So I finally figured out why this wasn't posting the the mailing list, as I
had changed my email address a while back for reasons I dont' remeber. As
such when sending from my phone it only sends from my default GMAIL account,
I switched that setting back.

Now, on to my orginal inquiry!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Jim Fulner <fulner at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:45 AM
Subject: Clonezilla
To: MDLUG <mdlug at mdlug.org>


I tried to send this a few days ago and I think it got eaten. Maybe I had
too many FWD/RE/ATTACH connected, so here we go again with just my message.

So I'm really bad about planning on doing something and then never got
around to doing it.

I downloaded clonezilla months ago and finally tried to back up my xplaptop
tonight.

I didn't fully understand some of the options, not sure if its still my lack
of geek cred, or the poorly translated clonezilla, especially when it came
to trying to do something with the /home/partimg/ directory.

Just to recap what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to back up the hard disk on
my laptop before I start f'n around with trying various partions and what
have you, even if I elect not to truly dual boot, backup should still be a
good idea. I'm hoping I can create the img store it on a flash drive, then
transfer that img to my wifes gigantic alienware hard disk.

Anyway back to my error, after going through all the options, not completley
understanding them, nor seeing any choices that looked like my flash drivr I
went ahead with the default settings and now I get this error:

/home/partimg is full! No space left on device! The saved image file
/home/partimg/nameofimage/sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz is in complete! You have to
increase the disk space then start clonezilla save mode again!

Any insight you think would be helpful is greatly appreciated.

Jim Fulner
Sent from my GNU SmartPhone.Please dismiss not-so-smart typos.
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