[CentOS] Ghost 8.0 Clone Filesystem with ext3 (remove resize_inode and ext_attr features)

Try using Acronis True Image or G4U (Ghost 4 Unix), I have had really 
good luck with both.  Imaged both CentOS only or dual boot machines 
without out error.  Norton/Symantec doesn't seem to care about 
Linux/Unix systems anymore, so I have switched for all of my back/image 
needs.

jer

Cesar Lagarrigue wrote:
> I've Found a page with interesing discussion about images backup
> 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-28255.html
> 
> This give a "dirty" solucion for remove special thing of ext3 (Selinux 
> remove resize_inode and ext_attr features) witch cause the error in ghost.
> 
> I hope somebody help with the problem of norton ghost and clone centos 4.
> 
> :)
> 
> -----------
> 
> sfabkk
> 2005-07-11, 04:53 AM PDT
> Solution to using Ghost 8 with Core 3 and 4
> Good news : It can be done
> 
> Bad News : You have to turn off SELinux Forever and remove resize_inode 
> and ext_attr features
> from filesystem. Also if you mess this up it could kill your system, so 
> I would use G4U (Ghost 4 Unix) to image it first before you try.
> 
> Here's the procedure to remove resize_inode and ext_attr features
> from filesystems on an FC3 or FC4 installation. Everything must be done 
> from
> the root account.
> 
> Step 1
> 
> If you installed FC3 or FC4 with SELinux enabled, which is the default, it
> you must disabled. Log on the system and edit /etc/selinux/config.
> Replace SELINUX=enforced by SELINUX=disabled. If you don't disable
> SELinux, the ext_attr will be set again on the root filesystem the
> next time you boot and every file created or modified will have its
> extended ACL entries set.
> 
> Step 2
> 
> Download e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5 from SourceForge. Click on the following
> link:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs
> 
> Step 3
> 
> Untar, compile and install the new utilities:
> 
> tar -zxf e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5.tar.gz
> cd e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> Step 4
> 
> Reboot the system in single-user mode:
> 
> type reboot
> 
> at the GRUB splash screen, press enter then press the 'a' and
> add the word single at the end of the command line (there's a space
> between quiet and single)
> 
> Step 5
> 
> Unmount all filesystems, including /, and remove both resize_inode
> and ext_attr features. Run the following commands on all filesystems:
> 
> debugfs -w /dev/XXXX -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr"
> e2fsck -y -f /dev/XXXX
> 
> Example:
> 
> /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot
> /dev/sda2 is mounted on /
> /dev/sda5 is mounted on /home
> 
> umount /boot
> umount /
> umount /home
> 
> debugfs -w /dev/sda1 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr"
> debugfs -w /dev/sda2 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr"
> debugfs -w /dev/sda5 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr"
> 
> e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda1
> e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda2
> e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda5
> 
> Running e2fsck on the root filesystem takes a while.
> 
> Step 6
> 
> Reboot the system.
> 
> During shutdown, you will get error messages telling you that the
> root filesystem cannot be written. That's normal because the root
> filesystem is still mounted read-only. It must remain mounted read-
> only during shutdown.
> 
> During boot, you will get a message telling you that the system was
> not properly shutdown and ask you if you want to verify the
> filesystem integrity. You can skip this step. It didn't find anything
> wrong on my system.
> 
> Your system is now ready to be Ghosted.
> 
> link to the bugzilla report
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145307
> 
> 
> 
> 
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