New mechanism can detect Microsoft Reserved Partitions

Oct 26, 2016 00:00 GMT  ·  By

On October 25, 2016, Clonezilla Live developer Steven Shiau proudly announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17, a new stable version of the popular, open-source disk imaging and cloning live system.

Fully synced with the Debian Sid (Unstable) software repositories as of October 21, 2016, Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17 is now powered by the Linux kernel 4.7.8, which, unfortunately, is not patched against the infamous "Dirty COW" vulnerability. Also, the Linux 4.7 kernel series has now officially reached end of life with version 4.7.10.

A new mechanism was implemented in the ocs-get-part-info to detect Microsoft Reserved Partitions (MSR) and BitLocker full-disk encrypted partitions, the "nodmraid" option was removed from the boot parameters, and it's now possible to browse directories recursively when mounting an image repository.

More improvements, lots of bug fixes

DHCP client's (dhclient) timeout is now forced to 60 seconds, just like on Debian GNU/Linux systems, two new options were added to the Clonezilla Live interactive menu, namely -senc and -sfsck, for allowing users to save image modes, and new cloning operations won't start before a post action (choose, reboot, poweroff) is active.

There are numerous other under-the-hood improvements added to Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17, and among the most exciting ones, we can mention the addition of the PowerTOP, os-prober, Dislocker, myrescue, and Ext4magic tools, as well as higher priority support to the ocs_overwrite_postaction boot parameter.

"The value for ocs_overwrite_postaction is: [choose|reboot|poweroff]-on-[restoredisk|restoreparts|savedisk|saveparts|clone] E.g., choose-on-restoredisk means the postaction for restoredisk will always be choose no matter what is assigned in -p of ocs-sr or -pa of ocs-onthefly," said Steven Shiau in the release announcement.

Lastly, multiple bug fixes reported by users in previous releases were resolved, and many language translations updated. You can download the Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17 ISO images for 64-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 32-bit non-PAE hardware architectures right now via our website. More details about the new changes are available in the changelog below.

Changelog