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Clonezilla - single partition of a disk only?
Hi,
We have a dozen brand new identical PC's. We would like to set one up and then clone it, so that we only have to install all our software once, and also are able to reset machines to our default software/settings if required.
I tried partimage but it failed as these are DELL machines with vendor supplied recovery partitions.
Brand new "out of the box" the machines have:
/dev/sda1 (Dell diagnostic tools etc)
/dev/sda2 (Dell recovery partition)
/dev/sda3 (C drive)
/dev/sda4 (D drive)
I want to clone ONLY the contents of C drive - ie partition /dev/sda3.
Using clonezilla, is it possible to ONLY image/restore the contents of one of the partitions? All 4 of the partitions are on the same physical disk. When I try this with partimage, I can create an image ok, but restore fails - I assume because partimage tries restoring the contents of partition /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda1 on the target machine.
Can someone please clarify if it's possible to do this with clonezilla, and perhaps a link to some instructions?
Thanks.
We have a dozen brand new identical PC's. We would like to set one up and then clone it, so that we only have to install all our software once, and also are able to reset machines to our default software/settings if required.
I tried partimage but it failed as these are DELL machines with vendor supplied recovery partitions.
Brand new "out of the box" the machines have:
/dev/sda1 (Dell diagnostic tools etc)
/dev/sda2 (Dell recovery partition)
/dev/sda3 (C drive)
/dev/sda4 (D drive)
I want to clone ONLY the contents of C drive - ie partition /dev/sda3.
Using clonezilla, is it possible to ONLY image/restore the contents of one of the partitions? All 4 of the partitions are on the same physical disk. When I try this with partimage, I can create an image ok, but restore fails - I assume because partimage tries restoring the contents of partition /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda1 on the target machine.
Can someone please clarify if it's possible to do this with clonezilla, and perhaps a link to some instructions?
Thanks.
The other option is to make a system image with Windows restore and just transfer that into the C drive.
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Thanks.
I am sure it would only take a little while longer to transfer the 3 partitions that you don't seem to want to mess with... you would probably be done by now..
For that you could just use dd on a linux terminal window.
It does a bit for bit transfer.
Some info on that here.