Hello,
I am not running any LVM filesystems as I manually partitioned and setup ext3 filesystems and swap similar to the following.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 6048352 5010060 731052 88% / /dev/hda1 93307 8468 80022 10% /boot none 123844 0 123844 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 31300896 103796 29607072 1% /ptmp /dev/hda3 1035692 154796 828284 16% /var
In regards to g4u, I'm wondering if it can be used to ghost a dualboot system (both the Linux and Windows partitions) to a single image file?
Thanks, Carrie
Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:26, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:36:34 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:
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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
Did G4U have compress function ? Because I also failed to backup using ghost 8.0 So no tool can use to backup...
Thanks...
This seems to be kind of the same problem I'm having with dump/restore. The LVM partitions are the first times I've ever seen it fail. If you guys are interested in copying whole Linux operating systems you should try this. This has worked with everything except core 3 so far.
/dev/hda is new drive /dev/hdb is existing Linux o/s
After creating and formatting the relative partitions on /dev/hda with linux rescue cd:
$ mkdir /mnt/disk $ mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/disk $ cd /mnt/disk $ dump -0uf - /dev/hdbX | restore xf - $ mkswap /dev/hdaX (for swap)
Then just make sure your fstab and modprobe.conf files are correct. This is the way we've been installing all our pre-configured RedHat/Fedora Cor 1,2 systems to new PC's and it's worked everytime except with the new Core 3 partitioning system. Does anyone know anything about the new partitioning system and/or why there's no swap partition anymore?
Jesse Jarzynka Cyber Source http://www.thecybersource.com/
