gnome-disks stuck at 0% creating a disk image...
by rudepeople from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52W6P)
I have an old lenovo thinkpad x301 that I'm planning to re-purpose (I'll probably install debian or arch, considering it's age), but before I nuke and pave, I wanted to take an image of the original SSD. The drive is an Intel SSD X18-M, I'd say about 10 to 12 years old (judging by the intel Arc page).
The drive had windows 8.1 and some company data, hence the reason I'd like to take an image of it first, for data archival.
So I booted into knoppix (8.6) and fired up gnome-disks (as root, because I like living dangerously) and kicked off a disk image capture. and then promptly forgot about it.
It's been running for the better part of 48 hours... the image file it created is 74.5GiB (which seems about right) and hasn't increased in the few hours I've been watching it, but gnome-disks is still stuck at "Creating Disk Image: 0.0%" with a spinning squirrel cage by the drive...
Terminal isn't showing any errors, and I cant really see anything that screams "help I'm stuck"... I've created hundreds of images in this manner over the last few years so this is a new one. Has anyone else seen this kind of activity?
I only use gnome-disks because I'm lazy and I like that it compresses disk images in one shot so I don't have to pass dd through gxip to make a manageable sized file (which can be especially cumbersome in knoppix). considering the file it's creating is the full size of the disk anyway, I might as well just run:
Code:# dd if=/dev/sda /media/sdc1/old-busted.imgBut now I'm nervous this is a bigger issue with knoppix that I may face in the future...
any thoughts?
The drive had windows 8.1 and some company data, hence the reason I'd like to take an image of it first, for data archival.
So I booted into knoppix (8.6) and fired up gnome-disks (as root, because I like living dangerously) and kicked off a disk image capture. and then promptly forgot about it.
It's been running for the better part of 48 hours... the image file it created is 74.5GiB (which seems about right) and hasn't increased in the few hours I've been watching it, but gnome-disks is still stuck at "Creating Disk Image: 0.0%" with a spinning squirrel cage by the drive...
Terminal isn't showing any errors, and I cant really see anything that screams "help I'm stuck"... I've created hundreds of images in this manner over the last few years so this is a new one. Has anyone else seen this kind of activity?
I only use gnome-disks because I'm lazy and I like that it compresses disk images in one shot so I don't have to pass dd through gxip to make a manageable sized file (which can be especially cumbersome in knoppix). considering the file it's creating is the full size of the disk anyway, I might as well just run:
Code:# dd if=/dev/sda /media/sdc1/old-busted.imgBut now I'm nervous this is a bigger issue with knoppix that I may face in the future...
any thoughts?