orthoducks
August 9th, 2019, 06:53 AM
I need help interpreting the results of some disk operations.
My system runs from a dual-boot disk with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7. I'm trying to clone the disk.
I ran Clonezilla. It reported an error copying /dev/sda7. When it was done I displayed partclone.log as the error message directed. It only contained information about a different partition. I think Clonezilla overwrites the log file each time it processes a partition.
I tested the clone disk. It booted successfully to both Ubuntu and Windows. When I examined the disk with parted, it said that the format of /dev/sda7 was "unknown."
I booted the original disk. Parted said /dev/sda7 is an NTFS partition, which is correct. I ran fsck on it. fsck ran for only fraction of a second (this is a 20 GB partition with at least several thousand files) and displayed this:
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
I did some research but I can't figure out what that means. Some of the sources I found say that fsck should display a single number: 0=OK, 1=errors corrected, etc. One source answered a person who got the message "fsck from util-linux 2.20.1" and told them that their disk was fine, but didn't explain what the numbers mean.
The disk clone is supposed to be my backup of all my installed software. I'm uncomfortable about the unexplained error message from Clonezilla and the cryptic results from fsck, even though the clone disk "seems to work fine." Can anyone help me understand what happened, and what problems, if any, warrant concern?
My system runs from a dual-boot disk with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7. I'm trying to clone the disk.
I ran Clonezilla. It reported an error copying /dev/sda7. When it was done I displayed partclone.log as the error message directed. It only contained information about a different partition. I think Clonezilla overwrites the log file each time it processes a partition.
I tested the clone disk. It booted successfully to both Ubuntu and Windows. When I examined the disk with parted, it said that the format of /dev/sda7 was "unknown."
I booted the original disk. Parted said /dev/sda7 is an NTFS partition, which is correct. I ran fsck on it. fsck ran for only fraction of a second (this is a 20 GB partition with at least several thousand files) and displayed this:
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
I did some research but I can't figure out what that means. Some of the sources I found say that fsck should display a single number: 0=OK, 1=errors corrected, etc. One source answered a person who got the message "fsck from util-linux 2.20.1" and told them that their disk was fine, but didn't explain what the numbers mean.
The disk clone is supposed to be my backup of all my installed software. I'm uncomfortable about the unexplained error message from Clonezilla and the cryptic results from fsck, even though the clone disk "seems to work fine." Can anyone help me understand what happened, and what problems, if any, warrant concern?