cannot verify: Invalid argument

[piegamesde]

I'm trying to mount a Clonezilla image using this tool. I think this should be possible, as Clonezilla uses partclone under the hood. As Clonezilla breaks the image into chunks and compresses them, I've used cat ./my-backup/sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* | gunzip > sda2-partclone.img to stitch the pieces back together before using imagemount. I then call imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f ./sda2-partclone.img -m ~/tmp -r -t ntfs, but I get ./sda2-partclone.img: cannot verify: Invalid argument as an error message.

[prekageo]

Maybe the same issue as #2 ?

[shasheene]

I should mention to both of you that I have recently cleaned up and merged a bunch of commits from several independent forks into the formerly inactive upstream Sourceforge project when I was evaluating partclone-utils as part of my work developing Rescuezilla's Image Explorer feature, an easy-to-use GUI to mount Clonezilla images (based on partclone-nbd as of Rescuezilla v2.1.3, but moving to partclone-utils soon)

Some of the recent changes include better informational and error messages, so if you try again using that version you may get a more informative error message, but yes it's probably the same issue as #2.

Alternatively try partclone-nbd (perhaps through Rescuezilla), but may get a similar error if it's an issue with partclone itself. During my development of Rescuezilla, I found partclone-nbd to have better support for some NTFS images than partclone-utils right now.

George, as you know, the original author of partclone-utils (Sourceforge user xppppp, also known as Paul Park) has not been very active on his project since 2014. A few months ago in response to my several Merge Requests, he graciously offered me full administrator access, which I accepted. I'm not well placed to be the primary partclone-utils maintainer and haven't yet found the motivation to learn more about the internals of partclone-utils. Fortunately Patrick (the author of major partclone and partclone-utils changes) is active so the issues hopefully should be sorted out soon. Given you wrote the primary partclone-utils v2 image format support branch, you may be interested in becoming a maintainer on the upstream project. I don't know the best way to proceed with this GitHub repository. For now pulling from the upstream Sourceforge project seems reasonable though.