Re: GNU/Hurd and CloneZilla

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:21:44AM +0000, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
wrote:

> I use Debian GNU/Hurd under Qemu, with a disk image that originally
> had 1,5 Gb. of size. Now, after more than a year of use it, the space
> on it is very limited:
[...]
> My idea is create a clean Qemu disk image with, for example, 4 or 6
> Gb. and "clone" the disk image i'm using now.

You don't actually need any cloning for that. You can simply extend the
size of the image with:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=hurd.img count=1 bs=1 seek=6000M

(As Thomas already said, you have to resize the actual filesystem
afterwards.)

> Searching for another solution i found a special live CD named
> CloneZilla. It looks like a good software for do Hard Disks clonations
> and copies, but all the attemps i made with the two Qemu images ended
> with errors. I think that CloneZilla "see" the disks like sda and sdb
> units, i don't know if this can be the cause of the errors. My
> question is: Do you know if CloneZilla can be used with a GNU/Hurd
> system?.

I doubt a Hurd ext2fs partition is any different for CloneZilla than a
Linux one. Your problem here is with qemu images, not with Hurd.

-antrik-