Possibility to mount without indexing?

[EpicLPer]

Heya,

Is there any possibility to mount the image without indexing it first? I have about 4TB of images to go through for a friend to recover files and stored those files on my NAS meanwhile. I only have a Gigabit connection, so far indexing the first 1TB image is already taking quite a lot of time (after 15 minutes it's only at about 4%).

Thanks already for your help and this project in general! :)

[fiddyschmitt]

Thanks Stefan! I'm very pleased it's helpful :)

Unfortunately none of the file formats used by Clonezilla support seeking. This means that extracting files would be extraordinarily slow. That is why clonezilla-util creates an index to speed up the process, even though as you noticed it can take quite some time.

The only alternative is to extract the image and open it with 7-Zip, but it would take just as long as indexing it.

clonezilla-util.exe extract-partition-image --input <clonzilla folder> --output <folder to extract to>

Cheers,
Fidel

[EpicLPer]

Ah, yeah makes sense then.
I finished indexing one of the archives yesterday and sadly it's not really usable afterwards, it's often slow and throws errors in a loop in the console about some filesize not being allowe to be 0 (if I remember correctly). Tho the slowness is most likely due to me using 8 as compression.