<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, kristau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristau@gmail.com">kristau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've used Clonezilla a few times and this behaviour seems odd. I'm<br>
guessing either a hardware issue or a bad disk?</blockquote></div><br>I don't think the disc is bad; the md5 of my physical disk matches their published md5 on the site.<br><br>But it gave me further bad behavior. During the backup xfer, I got a network driver error and a kernel message about a "soft lockup". After that, it never sent any more data.<br>
<br>I am not entirely sure that this is Clonezilla's fault rather than just the kernel/drivers' fault. The particular laptop I'm trying to back up has been a huge PITA for linux since the start.<br><br>Clonezilla does need some polish though. The ncurses interface offers the ability to cancel/go back if you want to change anything, but there are certain steps you can seemingly never get back to without restarting the whole process.<br>
<br>I will try a different one soon. FOG needs you to set up a special server for it, whereas g4l seems like it needs minimal infrastructure. I am thinking I might just be lazy: blast the laptop's unused space with zeros an let g4l do its dd+gzip thing.<br>
<br>- Nathan<br>