mkusb PPAs for vivid (Phill Whiteside)

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Andre,
[Replying inline]
Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-11-16 20:02, Andre Rodovalho skrev:
> I can't get boot when I restore a drive. Maybe because my root dir is
> not /dev/sda1. My first partition is a swap...
> 
> Or maybe you can get a boot drive because grub was already installed on
> your MBR, and you restored the image on a bootable drive...

I'll check what happens after wiping the first megabyte with mkusb.

> I do store the image as .img (default), how you got a .iso file?

'Disks' created an iso file extension by default. Maybe it recognized
the ISO9660 file system. I think it was when using Lubuntu Vivid.

> The uncompressed result is not good, this is why I do not use to make
> image of /home partition. It is ok for me to store 12gb img files on my
> external drive, but not the /home... I do like to make /home separate,
> that is why I don't use OBI for this, specifically...

Would it be worthwhile to make the OBI recognize and manage a home
partition (to check in /etc/fstab and take action when there is a home
partition)?

> I remember I tried to compress the generated .img file, and then restore
> it using a command line pipe. But I had no luck, maybe I needed to know
> some more specific parameters to get that done...

Or would it be more useful to make a script that wraps dd into something
safer and more user friendly? Or consider using rsync or fsarchiver?

> I can do exactly what I do with DD, and get a .gz file. But as you said,
> sometimes you can mess things up with DiskDestroyer...

I think you have found a method that works well for your purpose :-)

> 2014-11-16 13:35 GMT-02:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com
> <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     On 11/16/2014 08:53 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>     > Hi again,
>     >
>     > I've tried 'Disks' alias gnome-disks in Lubuntu 14.04.1 and Vivid.
>     >
>     > I could make it create an iso file from a partition, but not from the
>     > whole drive. Trying from the whole drive gave me an error both running
>     > as a regular user and with sudo. (I tested with a Tiny Core iso file,
>     > which is small so it was fast.)
>     >
>     > When I restored from the image of the partition I got a working boot
>     > drive. (I cloned the Ubuntu mini.iso in between so that the pendrive was
>     > changed.) I think this is not logical (and not corresponding to how dd
>     > is used). Restoring a partition should not restore the whole drive, but
>     > I guess it is intended to work this way.
>     >
>     > I could make it flash, clone alias 'restore' a boot USB drive from
>     > another iso file (I tested with the Ubuntu mini.iso (because it is small
>     > so it was fast).
>     >
>     > -o-
>     >
>     > Conclusion: I'm glad that I learned about this feature of 'Disks'. It is
>     > certainly possible to use in order to make a USB boot drive. There is an
>     > extra 'final warning window', so it should be safe enough to use. And
>     > best of all, it offers a working solution, when the Startup Disk Creator
>     > suffers from a really bad bug (# 1325801) plus several minor bugs.
>     >
>     > -o-
>     >
>     > But of course, I still think that my mkusb is better ;-)
> 
>     +1
>     :)
>     > One important extra feature of mkusb is the ability to use general
>     > compressed image files (an iso file often contains the compressed
>     > container squashfs, but is not itself compressed). Another extra feature
>     > of mkusb is the ability to check if the content of the iso file matches
>     > that of the pendrive, and suggest updating for iso-testing. And there
>     > are several informative windows including a final warning with red
>     > background.
>     >
>     > Best regards
>     > Nio
>     >
>     >
> 
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