The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 has been announced, designed for quick disk cloning, where only used blocks are copied. The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 484MB (amd64).
The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD, USB Flash, and over the network (PXE) is possible. LVM2 and file systems ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs, nilfs2, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, minix, VMFS3, and VMFS5 (VMware ESX) are supported. A mass cloning mode over the network is available, including traffic transmission in multicast mode, allowing simultaneous cloning of the source disk to a large number of client machines. Cloning from one disk to another, as well as creating backups via saving a disk image to a file, is possible. Cloning can occur at the level of entire disks or individual partitions.
In the new version:
- Synchronization with the Ubuntu 25.04 package base has been completed as of May 4 (the previous version used Debian Sid).
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.14 (previously it was 6.9).
- The Partclone toolkit has been updated to version 0.3.36 with support for new features for working with Btrfs file systems.
- The Live environment includes the packages libfsapfs-utils, usb-modeswitch, and fscrypt.
- A new module ocs-find-live-key has been added, which searches for USB drives with the vFAT file system. If the drive contains the file 'Clonezilla-Live-Version', it is processed as a Clonezilla Live USB. The ocs-put-log-usb module has been updated to copy logs to USB drives, including those used to boot the Live system into RAM.
- The ocs-live-repository module has been enhanced with the parameter 'dev=///OCS_LIVE_USB' for using the repository with Clonezilla Live USB.
- The dialog and menu for saving data have been improved.
- A mechanism for preserving the order of block device connections has been added.
- Support for Btrfs has been included in the configuration file drbl-ocs.conf.
Source: opennet.ru
