How to scan Clonezilla images with Kiosk

Starting from version 4.7.7, Kiosk support scanning Clonezilla image.

Prerequisites

During the preprocessing and enumeration phase, each folder is checked to determine whether it is a Clonezilla folder. A valid Clonezilla folder must meet the following conditions:

1. Required files: The folder contains clonezilla-img, disk, parts, andInfo-img-id.txt.
2. Disk file: The diskfile contains a single line specifying the disk name (e.g., sda, sdb).
3. Parts file: The partsfile lists partition names on a single line, separated by spaces. Partition names are formed by the disk name followed by a number (e.g., sdb1 sdb2 sdb4).
4. Disk metadata: The following files must exist for the identified disk: DISKNAME-pt.parted,DISKNAME-mbr, DISKNAME-gpt-1st, andDISKNAME-gpt-2nd.
5. Disk data: Partition data files must follow the format **PARTITION.FILESYSTEM-ptcl-img.*** , where PARTITIONis a partition name and FILESYSTEM _is the file system type (e.g.,_sdb1.xfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa).

Configurations

From Kiosk Console, navigate to Configuration > Advanced > Disk Image Settings > Clonezilla

• Scan full disk: Kiosk scans the entire disk, including the original file and all child files contained within
• Scan Original files: Kiosk scans only the original file, without processing child files

How does Kiosk scan the Clonezilla folder

Once the Kiosk detected a folder as a valid Clonezilla folder, it will proceed with preprocessing and mounting process

1. Restore the Clonezilla folder to Raw disk image

   1. Kiosk uses the built-inclonezilla-util to convert the partition data files into a raw partition image. For example, the sdb1.xfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa is converted to sdb1.img.
   2. Next, Kiosk combines with -mbr, -gpt-1st, ... files to produce the raw disk image sdb.img

2. Convert the raw disk to VHDX file using qemu-img

3. The VHDK file will then be mounted by Windows as usual. The Paragon software will also be used to read the uncommon Linux file systems such as XGS and BTRFS