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#172 "This directory is not a mount point" error

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2023-07-18
2023-07-13
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When attempting a Device to Image process, following the instructions here I run into an error I can't find a solution for. I'm specifically trying to create an image of my windows install, and save it on a secondary drive currently in use for media storage in the same computer. When selecting the drive in question, SDA2, as the image repository I immediately get asked if I want to check and repair the partition, which the guide in question doesn't mention, after choosing not to check the partition (the drive has been working perfectly fine as far as I can tell and I don't want to risk deleting 2TiB of media), instead of being asked for a directory, I'm met with a console message that reads "This directory is not a mount point: /home/partimag", I'm attaching an image that shows the whole error in question.

Every instance of this error I can find online is met with "did you mount the drive properly?" which makes no sense to me, as there's no such action expected of the user up to this point, and if there is, it goes completely unmentioned in the guide on Clonezilla.org, and it goes unexplained in those support questions. As I said, the drive has been in use as a media drive for windows for a while now, and no special change has been done to it for this operation, as no such thing is mentioned in any guide as a required step.

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  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2023-07-18

    "a secondary drive" -> Normally this one in GNU/Linux is called /dev/sdb, and its partition is called /dev/sdb1. On the other hand, /dev/sda2 is the 2nd partition on the 1st disk Linux kernel has detected.
    //NOTE// sda and sdb might be randomly shown. The 1st one detected by Linux kernel will be assigned as sda, and the 2nd one will be sdb. They are not in the 1st bus and 2nd bus in the order...

    Steven

     
  • Lillith Alonso

    Lillith Alonso - 2023-07-18

    I'm aware of that, however the computer only has 2 drives connected, a 1TB drive where windows is installed, and a 3tb drive that's the secondary drive mentioned in the post, when running Clonezilla, sda2 shows up as a 2.7TB partition, so there's no mistaking it, that's the media drive

     

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