External USB disks isn't detected but its partitions are

[InfoLibre]

When I clone a partition or a disk and store it on an external USB disk, this external disk isn't detected by ocs-scan-disk (/dev/sdb isn't detected):

But even if the disk isn't detected, its partitions are detected after and cloning works:

It seems ocs-scan-disk can't detect all disks.

I'm using Clonezilla Live stable debian based version 2.8.1-12, on a USB key.

[stevenshiau]

Thanks for your feedback. Your /dev/sdb contains no partition, and it has file system ext4 on itself. Hence Clonezilla treats it as a partition. Yes, the output of ocs-scan-disk can be confusing. We will think how to improve it. Ideas are welcome.

Steven

[InfoLibre]

Indeed, I forgot to create a partition and a partition table:

[stevenshiau]

Thanks for confirming that. So that's the way it is in Clonezilla now.

Steven