I have ghost 2003, and it crashed on the LVM drives, but I was able to use G4U to create an image file. Did a full install of FC3 on a clean 80GB drive, and did a g4u. Created a 14GB image file. Then I used the option to copy NULLs to all the free space on the drive, and redid the image file, and it was only 2.5GB. Just do a google search for G4U, and it is usually the very first hits. Note: This doesn't work well when going to a smaller drive, but same size and larger seem to work fine. Even did it with one that was a little smaller, and after running fsck after a shutdown -r -F now seemed to fix the error message. On 17 Nov 2004 at 10:26, Carrie Knox wrote: Date sent: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:26:31 -0600 From: Carrie Knox <knox@xxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: fedora core 3 and ghost Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully create a Symantec > or Norton ghost image of an FC2 or FC3 installed system. > > In the past I have been able to create compressed ghost images of > various RedHat 9 and RedHat9/Win2K dualboot systems OK. After > installing Fedora Core 2 (and now Core 3), I am unable to create a > compressed Ghost image. I get this Ghost error "Application error > 29004" "Read sector failure, result=1, drive=0, sectors -456237413 to > -456237411". This is not a failed device issue. I've received this > exact same error on several Fedora installed hardware platforms. The > disk type doesn't seem to matter. I am able to obtain a block by block > copy of the disk, but I really need the compressed ghost image that can > be reloaded onto a variety of disk sizes. > > I'm using the GRUB bootloader and ext3 filesystems with the bootloader > located in the MBR. I've reverted to LILO as the boot loader with no > success... still get the ghost sector read error. > > Initially, I was running Symantec Ghost 8.0, but have updated to > Symantec Ghost 8.2.0.1117 after contacting Symantec for assistance. > I've tried a variety of ghost options (-fni, -ffx,-bfc, -ib, -fdsz > -fdsp, -ffs, -fns, -fnu, -or). Ghost -ia and -id both worked. > > Symantec support's final response was... "In regards to your issue with > Ghost 8.2.0.1117 when cloning Fedora EXT3 systems... > One would expect that cloning an EXT3 file system would be just that > simple. However, it appears that there might be something different when > using Fedora, perhaps something to do with the partition structure. We > suggest you continue to try the switches -IA -IB -FRO or -BFC as a > workaround. You can include compression with any of these switches. The > bottom line is that Fedora is currently not supported." > > Has anyone had Ghost success with FC3? Any ideas on what might be > causing the "sector read" error during image creation? > > Thanks, > Carrie > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 14,827 Processing time: 29 years, 165 days, 19 hours, 54 minutes (Total Hours: 258,020)
