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How can I restore an image of a partition to different partition, e.g. restore the image of /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda6?

Normally Clonezilla only allows you to restore the image to the same partition, i.e. if it's saved from /dev/sda5, you can only restore that to /dev/sda5. If you really want to restore it to different partition, e.g. /dev/sda6, you can:

Create the partition /dev/sda6, and make sure the size is equal or larger than the /dev/sda5 which you save the source image.
Make a copy of image dir, here we use the image "my-image" as an example, e.g.
```
    cp -a /home/partimag/my-image /home/partimage/my-image-new
    
```

Now we have to change some files in /home/partimage/my-image-new,

Rename all the files /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5* as /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6*, e.g.

        mv /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa
        mv /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ab /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ab
        ...
            Modify the content of /home/partimage/my-image-new/parts, replace "sda5" with "sda6".

//Hint// In the above steps, if you want to save time and disk space, you can create the dir /home/partimage/my-image-new, copy the small files from /home/partimag/my-image, and use symbolic link (ln -fs) to link the sda5* files as sda6*.
Now you can use the menu "restoreparts" to restore the image of partition "sda6" from my-image-new to /dev/sda6, i.e. to use the new created image "my-image-new" instead of original "my-image".

Last modified: April 05 2016 23:36:36.