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Save disk image : Save 1st disk (sda) as an image on 2nd disk (sdb) (Step by step)

Clonezilla is saving disk image (sda) to the partition of 2nd disk (sdb1)

Clonezilla now is saving disk sda as an image. The job is done by saving:

MBR (by dd)
Partition table (by sfdisk and parted), CHS of disk.
Data on every partition or LV (logical volume) (by partimage, ntfsclone, partclone or dd. It depends on the "-q" option you choose)

When everything is done, Clonezilla will prompt you if you want to run it again,

'Stay in this console (console 1), enter command line prompt'
'Run command "exit" or "logout"'

Then you can choose to:

Poweroff
Reboot
Enter command line prompt
Start over

Here we choose Poweroff (0), then when the shutdown process is done, it will ask you to remove the disk and close the try (if any) then press ENTER.

That's all. We have successfully saved disk image (sda) on 2nd disk (sdb1). The image on the 2nd disk is a directory with name "lucid-2010-07-28-07-img" and its contents are:

root@debian:~# ls -alFh /home/partimag/
total 512
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2010-07-28 07:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  80 2010-07-28 07:15 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  48 2010-07-28 07:07 DOCS/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 2010-07-28 07:12 lucid-2010-07-28-07-img/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  48 2010-07-28 07:07 Photos/

root@debian:~# ls -alFh /home/partimag/lucid-2010-07-28-07-img/
total 220M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  512 2010-07-28 07:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  168 2010-07-28 07:12 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    4 2010-07-28 07:12 disk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  34K 2010-07-28 07:12 Info-dmi.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18K 2010-07-28 07:12 Info-lshw.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K 2010-07-28 07:12 Info-lspci.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  260 2010-07-28 07:12 Info-packages.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10 2010-07-28 07:12 parts
-rw------- 1 root root 216M 2010-07-28 07:12 sda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa
-rw------- 1 root root 2.3M 2010-07-28 07:12 sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   36 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-chs.sf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0M 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-hidden-data-after-mbr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-mbr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  434 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-pt.parted
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  310 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-pt.sf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   53 2010-07-28 07:12 swappt-sda2.info

Last modified: July 28 2010 03:11:04.