Post by Bobbie SellersDidn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive. I did not use compression. In the past, I've been able to simply plug this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but this time only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions seem hidden. How to remedy? Thanks.
What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy.
I am attempting to access from Ubuntu. I did it before and all of
the Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden. I just forgot how I did it.
If Clonezilla makes exact copies, which I assume it does, then the partitions would be
ntfs for Win and ext4 for Ubuntu. That is what the original hard drive is.
sudo apt install disktype
sudo disktype /dev/sda
That utility sniffs the partitions, and if there is a problem,
it might be apparent at this point.
Partition 10: 46.39 GiB (49806311424 bytes, 97277952 sectors from 1856245759+1)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
Volume name "U2310"
UUID 9FFC89FC-0EB1-45B9-AEE6-E834AA56DE7D (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/"
Volume size 46.39 GiB (49806311424 bytes, 12159744 blocks of 4 KiB)
By checking the file system header, determine the type, then
testing a few points within the partition, that's where the
"Type 0x83" comes from.
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Looking at the partition table, is a second issue.
This is the "bookkeeping" side of the setup. The bookkeeping should match
what disktype declares. It would be a serious issue, if the type field
in the partition table, does not match the file system actually in the partition.
The software still checks the file system header.
sudo gdisk /dev/sda # Checks the disk partitioning type first.
# You can type "Q" to Quit, if it finds the disk is not GPT
# and it is printing out silly warnings.
# Otherwise, typing "P" to print, will show some info.
# GDisk will be calm and collected, if the disk is GPT partitioned.
# And won't make such a fuss. If the disk is not GPT, we use fdisk.
sudo fdisk /dev/sda # If you quickly exited gdisk because of the warnings,
# the fdisk utility is for MBR partitioned disks.
# Typing "P" to print, dumps the partition table info.
# Type "Q" to quit.
Perhaps by this point, it will already be apparent there was a failure
during cloning.
Paul