How to use the antiX clonezilla package?

[Member ronqual]

In the “[antiX] Package Installer” clonezilla is listed under “Utility”[footnote 1].

I am curious if anyone knows how to “launch” clonezilla from within antiX. My understanding was that clonezilla could only be used as a live CD/USD/other-storage-media. But since it is available as a package, under “Popular Applications” no less, I assume that this is not the case. I may very well be wrong, in which case I ask that someone more knowledgeable corrects me and teaches me what the use is for a clonezilla package.

If it is required to “launch” clonezilla as its own operating system, I will use this opportunity to ask the kind citizens of this forum: how can I add a GRUB menu option to the antiX GRUB menu in order to launch a clonezilla partition? I tried following these instructions by creating /etc/default/grub.d/40_custom[footnote 2] but the menu item never appeared (yes, I ran sudo update-grub before rebooting). I believe/hope that GRUB is standardized across most Linux distributions, but I may be wrong because I do not know about operating systems/booting internals so I’m unsure what part of the system is responsible for starting GRUB.

I am well aware that this would all be much easier if I had a CD or USB drive to install Clonezilla on. I unfortunately do not. I have a single USB drive with 32GB, so if anyone wishes they could suggest a way to boot a Clonezilla partition on that drive. I do not want to use the entire drive because I have an antiX live install on it, and I would like to keep the security of having a bootable USB drive that I know works.

About my system

I prefer to share as little information as possible about my hardware, for privacy. However I realize that this can make troubleshooting unreasonably difficult (if not impossible) for those who try to help me. Please request more information if you feel it would help you help me.

I installed antiX in multiple partitions using the custom template option (my apologies for the vague language; I do not remember the Live USB install menu terms exactly and would like to avoid rebooting into it right now to save time). See the inxi output of my partitions immediately below. The quick info is that I have an unencrypted GPT filesystem created for a UEFI motherboard.

The “System”, “Partition”, “Swap”, and “Info” headers of my running inxi -zv7:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 wm: Blackbox vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 62.44 GiB used: 5.02 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: <uuid-redacted> 
  ID-2: /boot size: 487.2 MiB used: 104 MiB (21.3%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 label: boot uuid: <uuid-redacted> 
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/sda1 label: EFI System uuid: <uuid-redacted> 
  ID-4: /home size: 124.93 GiB used: 3.77 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda4 label: homeantiX 
  uuid: <uuid-redacted> 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5 label: swapantiX 
  uuid: <uuid-redacted> 
Info:
  Processes: 210 Uptime: 1d 3h 28m wakeups: 2 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 
  runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: 
  apt: 1659 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06 

Footnotes

1: (I call it such to distinguish it from the Synaptic Package Manager) launched from Control Centre -> Software -> Package Installer
2: I found the path to this grub directory from the “Boot Parameters” antiX wiki page

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After installing clonezilla if it was me. I would 1st do after install

sudo updatedb

Let it up date the files 1st. After it finishes. Nothing happens by the way when issuing that command. After I get back to command prompt.

locate clonezilla

Peruse then what is listed after a install. Launcher file should be listed in there.
You might be overthinking the grub entry scenario. I’d just install and see. I would also use the antiX oackage installer instead of synaptic to install this since it is listed. Looks like you already installed it it < greyed out entry >

I use snapshot in our antiX control center and a external large usb drive to throw my made backup iso to.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/backup-iso-creation/

As far as clonezilla instructions. Youtube or the net should have you covered.

Good luck.

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