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Utility to back up Pi to an SD card reader
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Cannot create file system #6

Closed Cisecodev closed 8 years ago

Cisecodev commented 8 years ago

Raspberry Pi 2 - fresh rasbian install 2016-05-27 (not Noobs). 8GB SD card running Raspbian, another 8GB card (unformatted) in /dev/sda Run SD Card Copier from menu Result fat partition gets created and the I get the error "Could not create file system.". Ext4 partition is not created. Repeatable.

Rpi-clone works fine.

spl237 commented 8 years ago

Check the destination card is not write-protected. Try formatting the destination card in another machine and try again. The error message is produced by mkfs being unable to perform an operation on the card; there is probably a problem with your card or card writer.

To help diagnose this, please post the output of "sudo lsblk -o name,uuid"

Cisecodev commented 8 years ago

Check the destination card is not write-protected

It is not write protected - I have tried several

Try formatting the destination card in another machine and try again.

Done - no difference

there is probably a problem with your card or card writer

tried three different makes not has an issue before.

As I said Rpi-clone works

Running Piclone from a terminal image

Output of lsblk -o name,uuid NAME UUID sda └─sda1 9016-4EF8 mmcblk0 ├─mmcblk0p1 2D2D-CD16 └─mmcblk0p2 2f840c69-cecb-4b10-87e4-01b9d28c231c

spl237 commented 8 years ago

OK, for some reason, /dev/sda1 on the target is not being unmounted when piclone asks it to; or actually looks as if it is being unmounted and then something else is remounting it before mkfs has time to do anything. Are you running any other software or processes that might be trying to access the card reader at the same time?

If you manually do a sudo umount /dev/sda1 before you start, does that help?

Cisecodev commented 8 years ago

Are you running any other software or processes that might be trying to access the card reader at the same time?

nothing else running - let alone anything that might access the SD card

If you manually do a sudo umount /dev/sda1 before you start, does that help?

No difference, same error message

df before run /dev/root 7508524 3522752 3626132 50% / devtmpfs 469544 0 469544 0% /dev tmpfs 473876 0 473876 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 473876 6408 467468 2% /run tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 473876 0 473876 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mmcblk0p1 64456 20992 43464 33% /boot tmpfs 94776 4 94772 1% /run/user/1000

then run piclone - get the error - it is mounted Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 7508524 3522752 3626132 50% / devtmpfs 469544 0 469544 0% /dev tmpfs 473876 0 473876 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 473876 6408 467468 2% /run tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 473876 0 473876 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mmcblk0p1 64456 20992 43464 33% /boot tmpfs 94776 4 94772 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sda1 31248384 5292544 25955840 17% /media/usb0

spl237 commented 8 years ago

It looks like something peculiar to your setup; I've tested piclone a lot and not seen a failure like this before. Does it happen with a completely clean install of Raspbian? What else have you installed?

Check the table of mounted devices - cat /proc/mounts, I think. Then force /dev/sda1 to unmount - sudo umount /dev/sda1 - and check the table again. Then run piclone - if it fails, check the table a third time - what is mounted in all three cases?

Cisecodev commented 8 years ago

Tried brand new fresh install of Rasbian, installed xrdp - (I run headless) and ran Pi clone - it worked fine.

I just need to work out what I might have installed (I thought nothing) - or maybe a corrupt installation.

Closing this