Clonezilla no disk image is found in /home/partimag error

[Andross561]

Hello everyone,

I have looked all over the web for an answer to this question. I have been working with clonezilla for weeks now and I am still unable to get it to image a computer from my Ubuntu Server.

The error I am getting reads No disk image is found in /home/partimag.. Make sure you already saved an image! Or make sure you did not try to restore and image save from partition(s) to disk(s)!

I have saved the image onto an external hard drive, I know that I need to somehow move this image over to the ubuntu server computer but I do not know how. When I go to /media there is nothing there. However, when I type fdisk -l i see

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 32 248832 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sde2 * 33 19519 156... 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sde3 19519 38914 155... 5 Extended
/dev/sde5 19519 38121 149... 83 Linux
/dev/sde6 38121 38914 6365... 82 Linux swap / Solaris

NOTE: I added the .... to the blocks section so it would fit nicely.

This image has a windows partition and a linux partition. Any help would be much appreciated! I just want to put an image on my ubuntu server and then push it out to some client computers. Even a step by step guide someone may have found to walk me through this would be great!

Thanks so much in advance.

[yancek]

The error I am getting reads No disk image is found in /home/partimag.. Make sure you already saved an image! Or make sure you did not try to restore and image save from partition(s) to disk(s)!

It is looking for it in the /home directory according to the above message. Did you image a partition or the entire disk? If you saved the image to an external device, what is on the external drive? What operating system? filesystem? Are you able to access anything on the external drive?

[Andross561]

Well now I kind of feel like an idiot. There is no operating system on the external drive, Clonezilla just let me save my image onto the external. I have it formatted as an NTFS file system since windows only gave me 2 options for filesystems NTFS and exFAT. I am not able to access anything on the drive, which could be a contributing factor heh.. Also I imaged the entire disk.

[yancek]

It's been a while since I've used clonezilla and I never used it to image a disk. The error you get would indicate to me it is looking for partimage in your /home directory. Do you have options when you restore to point clonezilla to where you have saved it? Do you have any partitions on the external or is it just one big ntfs partition? You could create a small partition as an ext4 filesystem and save your image there.

Haven't used clonezilla much and don't have it available. Perhaps someone with more familiarity will respond to your post.

[Andross561]

Thanks for replying yancek!!

Any chance you could walk me through how to set up a ext4 filesystem on my external so i could save the image there? Do i need an operating system or is there another way?

Thanks again!

[yancek]

Probably the easiest way is to use (or download if you don't have it) GParted CD. Here's a link to about as detailed a tutorial as you could find. I hesitate to give any specific advice as I don't know your drive/partition information. Reading through this tutorial should give you the steps to create a partition and filesystem.
If you have the Ubuntu install CD, it should contain GParted.

GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial

Is your external attached to your Ubuntu computer? Does the drive show up as mounted? Are you able to view anything in the /media directory? Can you see anything on the external drive? Did you have windows files there? I don't know if your server has a GUI?

Could you post the output of the sudo fdisk -l command?(lower case letter L) with your partition information having your external attached.

Not knowing if the image was created or where it is creates problems. As I indicated above, it seems to not be able to find it in the /home directory. If you have it on your external drive I doubt that is your /home directory. Are you able to select where clonezilla looks for the image. It's been a while since I've used it and I never used it for images.