How to Mount Clonezilla Images

[nutria007]

can't mount the img, any ideas?

sudo mount /dir-to-image/hda2.img /mnt -t ntfs -o loop
mount: se va a utilizar el dispositivo de bucle /dev/loop6
Failed to read last sector (82027826): Argumento inválido
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
   or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
   or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
   or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
   or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/loop6': Argumento inválido
The device '/dev/loop6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

[nutria007]

finally it worked!

sudo ntfs-3g /path/to/hda2.img /mnt

[pipeep]

i hope this will help someone

It has. Thank you.

[wesswei]

@ nutria007 and it has helped again. just saved me bum from a ton of headache.

[bfitzhugh]

@nutria007

Worked for me on 64bit. Had to force partclone to install with the following command:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all partclone_0.2.8_i386.deb

It's important to remember the og's post, especially when determining your image type. For example my image was gzipped, so I had to use nutria007's statement and replace the lzop with gzip:

cat /dir-to-images/sdb1.ntfs-ptcl-img.lzo.* | gzip -d -c | sudo partclone.restore -C -s - -O /dir-to-new-image/hda1.img

Note: I had to remove all the sudo's except for the partclone one.

[akross6966]

I have tried call your suggestions but nothing seems to work. I have with Ubuntu 9.1 and 10.04 but nothing works so far. I get an error saying no file or directory and then gzip errors out saying "gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file."

Do I need to be running this from the clonezilla live cd? I seem to be missing a vital piece of information. I would appreciate any help you could give me.

[CorvetteFan86]

I follow the instructions and the image comes up as gzip when I use the file command but, when I type the second command:
cat ./sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.* | gzip -d -c | ntfsclone --restore-image -o ./sda1.img I get an error message "ERROR: You must specify a device file". This seems to be a noob by the error message but I cant seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas

[CorvetteFan86]

Bump

[yaywoop]

CorvetteFan86: you forgot the "-" at the end of ntfsclone (which makes it use the standard input as a source)

also since your backup is of the format sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.* the ptcl indicates that partclone was used to back it up, so partclone must be used to restore it as in post 10 and 15

[Vijay.Saraff]

cat sda1.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | sudo partclone.restore -C -s - -O hda1.img

That's the command I've used, and the behavior is strange. When it started out the progressbar said it would take about 2 hours to finish, at a rate 1.3 GB/min, but 7 hours later, it still shows 7 hours remaining with a speed of 130MB/min, the rate is decreasing linearly and the time remaining is increasing linearly as well... Has anybody else experienced this or am I doing something stupid?

At this rate it seems like the program will never end! and it's only done 50% of the way.

I tried to abort and mount the partial image as ext3, but that failed as well. Anyone have any ideas?