Mount CloneZilla image
Locate image and go there, you will find files like: "sda1.ntfs-img.aa" and "sda1.ntfs-img.ab" ...
Find what compression has been used, gzip, bzip or lzop?
file *.ntfs-img.aa
Note: the image you are about to extract will be sized to the original partition-size, unused space included. This can take quite some time and disk space.
Windows NTFS partition
You will need ntfsclone, install
sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs
Lets say the compression is gzip (as it probably is), then we need to extract the image using gzip.
sudo cat *.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c | ntfsclone --restore-image -o ntfs.img -
Mount with:
sudo mkdir /media/ntfs-img sudo mount -o loop -t ntfs ntfs.img /media/ntfs-img
Linux ext4 partition
Extract
Install partclone:
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main universe restricted multiverse" apt-get update apt-get install partclone
Lets say compression is gzip (as it probably is), then we need to extract the image using gzip:
Options:
- -C ignore size errors
- -F force
- -O overwrite
- -s <> source, specify - to use standard input (pipe)
- -o <outputfile>
cat sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore --restore_row_file -F -O -C -s - -o sda5.img
Mount/unmount with:
mkdir /media/ubuntutje mount -o loop -t ext4 sda5.img /media/sda5img umount /media/sda5img
Restore
You can do this instead of using CloneZilla if you have 'geometry' errors or other problems.
Check for (mount) errors:
dmesg | tail
Fix errors (if any)
fsck.ext4 -f sda5.img e2fsck -f sda5.img
Resizing the filesystem on sda5.img to minimum size. Note: this can take a lot of time
resize2fs -M sda5.img
Restore to partition, in this example /dev/sda3.
THIS WILL OVERWRITE THE TARGET PARTITION!! ALL DATA ON THAT PARTITION (/dev/sda3) WILL BE LOST!!
Note: after this only the earlier 'minimum size' of the partition is used
partclone.restore -d -s sda5.img -o /dev/sda3
Resize partition to fit the whole available space:
e2fsck -f /dev/sda3 resize2fs /dev/sda3
