Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive. I
did not use compression. In the past, I've been able to simply plug
this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but this time
only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions seem hidden.
How to remedy? Thanks.

On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
> drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive.  I
> did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to simply plug
> this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but this time
> only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions seem hidden.
> How to remedy?  Thanks.

What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?

Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10

On 1/17/24 5:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
>> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
>> drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive.
>> I did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to simply plug
>> this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but this time
>> only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions seem hidden.
>> How to remedy?  Thanks.
>
> What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
>
> Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
>
>
> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy. I
am attempting to access from Ubuntu. I did it before and all of the
Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden. I just forgot
how I did it.

On 1/17/24 5:50 PM, Jake M wrote:
> On 1/17/24 5:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
>>> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
>>> drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive.
>>> I did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to simply
>>> plug this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but
>>> this time only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions
>>> seem hidden. How to remedy?  Thanks.
>>
>> What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
>>
>> Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
>>
>>
>> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
>
> Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy.  I
> am attempting to access from Ubuntu.  I did it before and all of the
> Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden.  I just forgot
> how I did it.
If Clonezilla makes exact copies, which I assume it does, then the
partitions would be ntfs for Win and ext4 for Ubuntu. That is what the
original hard drive is.

On 1/17/2024 8:48 PM, Jake M wrote:
> On 1/17/24 5:50 PM, Jake M wrote:
>> On 1/17/24 5:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
>>>> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive. I did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to simply plug this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but this time only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions seem hidden. How to remedy?  Thanks.
>>>
>>> What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
>>>
>>> Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
>>>
>>>
>>> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
>>
>> Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy. 
>> I am attempting to access from Ubuntu.  I did it before and all of
>> the Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden.  I just forgot how I did it.
>
> If Clonezilla makes exact copies, which I assume it does, then the partitions would be
> ntfs for Win and ext4 for Ubuntu.  That is what the original hard drive is.

sudo apt install disktype

sudo disktype /dev/sda

That utility sniffs the partitions, and if there is a problem,
it might be apparent at this point.

Partition 10: 46.39 GiB (49806311424 bytes, 97277952 sectors from 1856245759+1)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
Volume name "U2310"
UUID 9FFC89FC-0EB1-45B9-AEE6-E834AA56DE7D (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/"
Volume size 46.39 GiB (49806311424 bytes, 12159744 blocks of 4 KiB)

By checking the file system header, determine the type, then
testing a few points within the partition, that's where the
"Type 0x83" comes from.

*******

Looking at the partition table, is a second issue.

This is the "bookkeeping" side of the setup. The bookkeeping should match
what disktype declares. It would be a serious issue, if the type field
in the partition table, does not match the file system actually in the partition.
The software still checks the file system header.

sudo gdisk /dev/sda # Checks the disk partitioning type first.
# You can type "Q" to Quit, if it finds the disk is not GPT
# and it is printing out silly warnings.

# Otherwise, typing "P" to print, will show some info.

# GDisk will be calm and collected, if the disk is GPT partitioned.
# And won't make such a fuss. If the disk is not GPT, we use fdisk.

sudo fdisk /dev/sda # If you quickly exited gdisk because of the warnings,
# the fdisk utility is for MBR partitioned disks.
# Typing "P" to print, dumps the partition table info.
# Type "Q" to quit.

Perhaps by this point, it will already be apparent there was a failure
during cloning.

Paul

On 1/17/24 10:20 PM, Paul wrote:

>
> Perhaps by this point, it will already be apparent there was a failure
> during cloning.
>
> Paul

I figured it out. I went to "discs" and discovered that all of the
partitions were present, just not mounted. Discs will let me mount any
or all of them. This is good because I can simply transfer a bunch of
files over to the back up disc just by opening its partition. Save me a
lot of work after the back up installation.

On 1/17/24 17:48, Jake M wrote:
> On 1/17/24 5:50 PM, Jake M wrote:
>> On 1/17/24 5:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
>>>> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
>>>> drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard drive.
>>>> I did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to simply
>>>> plug this drive into the USB port and access the files on it, but
>>>> this time only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu partitions
>>>> seem hidden. How to remedy?  Thanks.
>>>
>>> What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
>>>
>>> Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
>>>
>>>
>>> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
>>
>> Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy.
>> I am attempting to access from Ubuntu.  I did it before and all of the
>> Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden.  I just forgot
>> how I did it.
>
> If Clonezilla makes exact copies, which I assume it does, then the
> partitions would be ntfs for Win and ext4 for Ubuntu.  That is what the
> original hard drive is.

Have you attempt to examine the drive with GPartEd? If it fails to see
your Ubusto files it has a Partition Recovery-mode that is vary slow.
But it seems to work fine.

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10

On 1/18/24 3:07 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 1/17/24 17:48, Jake M wrote:
>> On 1/17/24 5:50 PM, Jake M wrote:
>>> On 1/17/24 5:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> On 1/17/24 14:03, Jake M wrote:
>>>>> Didn't mean to start a new topic here, but just finished a drive to
>>>>> drive clone from my dual OS Ubuntu/Win PC to the back up hard
>>>>> drive. I did not use compression.  In the past, I've been able to
>>>>> simply plug this drive into the USB port and access the files on
>>>>> it, but this time only the Win files are visible and the Ubuntu
>>>>> partitions seem hidden. How to remedy?  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> What format is the partition where you backed up the Ubuntu files?
>>>>
>>>> Which OS are you attempting to access those files from?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
>>>
>>> Whatever format Clonezilla uses, a direct to direct hard drive copy.
>>> I am attempting to access from Ubuntu.  I did it before and all of
>>> the Ubuntu partitions came up, but so far they are hidden.  I just
>>> forgot how I did it.
>>
>> If Clonezilla makes exact copies, which I assume it does, then the
>> partitions would be ntfs for Win and ext4 for Ubuntu.  That is what
>> the original hard drive is.
>
> Have you attempt to examine the drive with GPartEd?   If it fails to see
> your Ubusto files it has a Partition Recovery-mode that is vary slow.
> But it seems to work fine.
>
> bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.01- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10
I figured it out. I had to go into "discs" and saw that the external
hard drive backup partitions were there, just not mounted. Discs gives
the option to mount them which I did. Saved a lot of work after the
backup with being able to access many files on the corrupted backup.