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After a crash on my hard drive, I had to start from scratch. I reorganized the different systems and their appropriate partitions.
I had the required partitions and their sizes set up.
The only difference being that they were numbered differently:
my original partitions sda12 and sda13 were now sda6 and sda7.
Problem is, the saved Clonezilla images can only be restored to the original sda12 and sda13.
Is there some way to restore the images to the new setup on sda6 and sda7?
As you have noted, this cannot be achieved automatically through the usual Clonezilla interface. However, it can be accomplished with manual intervention by following a couple of simple steps documented on the Clonezilla FAQ page.
For example, how can I restore an image of a partition to different partition, e.g. restore the image of /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda6? By following the following steps.
Create the new target partition /dev/sda6, making sure that its size is equal to or larger than the original /dev/sda5 partition for which you have a restorable Clonezilla image.
Now, make a copy of the Clonezilla image directory of the original partition. Here we will use the image "my-image" as an example, e.g.
cp -a /home/partimag/my-image /home/partimage/my-image-new
Now we have to change some files in this new image directory: /home/partimage/my-image-new.
Rename all the file names with the partition location identifier in them from that of the original partition to the identifier of the new target partition (eg.: /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5* as /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6*). Eg.:
mv /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa
mv /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ab /home/partimag/my-image-new/sda6.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ab
Next, modify the contents of /home/partimage/my-image-new/parts text file in the same folder, again replacing the identifier of the original partition with the identifier of the new target partition (eg.: replace "sda5" with "sda6").
Having made these changes to adapt the image to a new target partition, you can now attempt to restore to the new and different partition location. Select the latter, adapted (my-image-new) image from the Clonezilla repository and the new target partition location using the usual Clonezilla interface and it should now allow you to restore it to the new partition location (/dev/sda6).
There are also some advanced (expert) parameters, again documented on the Clonezilla site, that can help with this if the two partitions differ in size.
In particular, the "-r" option to resizes the file system in the new partition automatically.
Note that to restore an individual partition, you probably do NOT want to use the "-k1" option which adjusts the partition table, as it adjusts the WHOLE partition table.
