fedora core 3 and ghost
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Wed Nov 17 16:36:34 UTC 2004
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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From: Carrie Knox <knox at sgi.com>
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Subject: fedora core 3 and ghost
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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
>
>
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