{"id":5160,"date":"2019-09-17T18:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:52:19","slug":"acronis-ext4-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5160","title":{"rendered":"Acronis ext4 fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So numerous editions of Acronis purport to support imaging a drive formatted in ext4, but, often when you attempt to image such a partition you receive a message that &#8220;Some partitions contain errors and can only be imaged sector by sector&#8230;..&#8221; etc.  I ran into this, recently, using Acronis 2018 to image a partition formatted as ext4 and containg the Linux distro PopOS 18.04.  It turns out, that there&#8217;s a fix&#8230;..the explanation of which is way beyond my understanding &#8211; you can read about it here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.acronis.com\/forum\/acronis-true-image-2019-forum\/ext4-partition-backup-linux\">Read the technical data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way,<strong> this problem is reportedly fixed in True Image 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, by running the following script from a live USB stick (and replacing &#8220;sda3&#8221; with the correct partition info) the drive can be imaged by versions of Acronis earlier than True Image 2020 with no problems:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\n\r\ne2fsck -f \/dev\/sda3\r\n\r\ntune2fs -O '^metadata_csum'  \/dev\/sda3\r\n\r\ne2fsck -f \/dev\/sda3\r\n\r\nresize2fs -s \/dev\/sda3<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So numerous editions of Acronis purport to support imaging a drive formatted in ext4, but, often when you attempt to image such a partition you receive a message that &#8220;Some partitions contain errors and can only be imaged sector by sector&#8230;..&#8221; etc. I ran into this, recently, using Acronis 2018 to image a partition formatted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}