Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Clonezilla: disk cloning, but it's easier than dd" video.

  1. That used to be a common issue but more recently there's an official standard for how many sectors are on a disk of "x" nominal gigabytes. SSDs are after that so they probably didn't implement the standard correctly.
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  2.  @northpoint1039  If you want progress info you can use pv which shows a progress bar. It can do transfers by itself, or it has a nifty mode where it will monitor the progress of other programs.
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  3. ​ @VeronicaExplains  My luck with Ventoy has been much better than that, it's mainly Apple systems and systems with weird Secure Boot setups that cause trouble for me. Btw Clonezilla works great with Ventoy. I find messing with Ventoy quicker and easier than writing a new image to a slow flash drive but that's just me. For beginners I'd definitely suggest burning ISOs directly.
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  4. The most useful thing I can comment is that if you use the "advanced" option when restoring the image it will let you "resize the partition table proportionally" and resize everything to fully use a larger destination disk. With basic mode your partitions will retain their original size which is not what most people want. For a less useful comment, Clonezilla fails when trying to clone APM-partitioned disks.
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  5. I don't know about 4kn disks but it works fine cloning a 512b to more common 512e disks.
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  6. It's easier for folks not familiar with command line tools. Also Clonezilla will usually be faster because it only copies used blocks.
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  7. I don't think I've run into any issues like that, but I should also note that I mainly use Clonezilla with Windows systems. Perhaps they had problems in older versions that have since been fixed.
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  8. The destination disk needs to be large enough to contain all the partitioned space of the source drive.
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  9. Cloning to a smaller drive is impossible without modifying the filesystem structures.
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