This release of Clonezilla live (20140331-saucy) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Ubuntu Saucy repository (as of 2014/Mar/31).
- Linux kernel was updated to 3.11.0-18.32.
- Partclone was updated to 0.2.70. An issue about restoring image file to raw format has been fixed (http://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/4db4b2bd/). Thanks to quaid for reporting this issue.
- Syslinux was updated to 6.03-pre9.
- Package drbl was updated to 2.8.6-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.9.49-drbl1.
- Two options were added to makeboot.sh: -L and -U. Patch provided by Ceasar Sun.
- A boot parameter "ocs_prompt_mode" was added so some of the prompt could be shown in TUI or CMD mode.
- Function parse_cmdline_option of drbl-functions was updated to accept all print characters ([[:print:]]). Thanks to Fuchs (fusi1939 _at_ users sf net) for this suggestion.
- Image creating time will be shown in the prompt before restoring an image.
- An example gen-rec-usb was added. It could be used to create a recovery USB flash drive directly from the machine. Thanks to ilovecats for this idea.
- The example "clone-multiple-usb-example.sh" was removed because it's in the main menu already.
- An unattended option (-b) was added to makeboot.sh.
- Package libc6-i386 was added in all AMD64 version so that some 32-bit programs could be run.
- The "syslinux" and "isolinux" dirs of Clonezilla live have been unified as one dir "syslinux". Thanks to Ady (ady-sf _at_ hotmail com) for this suggestion.
- An option "-d syslinux" was added when running syslinux in makeboot.sh/makeboot.bat/makeboot64.bat. Thanks to Ady (ady-sf _at_ hotmail com) for this suggestion.
- The option "--rsyncable" was added for gzip/pigz when saving an image (https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/8d5f80a6). Thanks to lucatrv for providing this idea.
- Pixz is used in ocs-onthefly local to remote cloning. An option to use xz as filter program was added, too.
- Switching back to lbzip2 (http://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/141facdc/). Thanks to Steven Goris for reminding this.
- Language files ca_ES and zh_CN were updated. Thanks to Juan Ramón Martínez, René Mérou, and Zhiqiang Zhang.
BUG FIXES
- The parameter "autoproductname" should filter the characters "()[]{}". Thanks to Coudy* for reporting this issue (https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/193/).
- The menu about "toram" option for grub should use toram=filesystem.squashfs instead of toram so that it's consistent with that of syslinux.
- The xz format for old image format (e.g. sda1.aa) was not detected (https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/191/). Thanks to peter green for reporting this issue.
- A typo for the destination partition for 2nd confirmation for local partition to local partition was fixed (https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/b99ab9e6/). Thanks to Tweed for reporting this bug.
- The grub dir name is called "grub2" for Fedora >=18, that causes check_grub_partition function failed to locate the grub partition.
- The boot media should not be mounted again as read-write mode in function ocs-live-env-prepare of ocs-functions. Otherwise when rebooting, due to the squashfsfs is mounted, it can not be unmounted. If you want to save the image on the boot media (USB flash drive), use "toram" option in the boot media. Thanks to ilovecats for reporting this.