Operation not permitted...

[fmarzocca]

I don't understand the meaning of these errors....

Syncing file systems (can take a long time)
Syncing mounted partitions:
  Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt/clone
  => rsync // /mnt/clone with-root-excludes ...
  Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/clone/boot
  => rsync /boot/ /mnt/clone/boot  ...rsync: chown "/mnt/clone/boot/." failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/clone/boot/COPYING.linux" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/clone/boot/LICENCE.broadcom" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/clone/boot/bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
.....
.....
(lot of lines)

[framps]

You either don't have the required access rights or the filesystem you use does not support Linux filesystem attributes. Don't use NTFS or any fat filesystem. Just use EXT3/4 or btrfs.

[fmarzocca]

Raspberry's boot partition is always vfat:

/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="boot" LABEL="boot" UUID="F661-303B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="b5a15f89-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="8d008fde-f12a-47f7-8519-197ea707d3d4" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b5a15f89-02
```"
so, when you first "force" imaging on a new SD, also that partition will be vfat.

[bonzer2u]

rpi-clone is totally dead for me now. rpi-4b 4gb, fully updated. I hope it gets addressed in the near future. However, sd-card-copier is still functional as a backup. Tried to clone a 32gb used of a 128gb usb flash drive to both a 64gb and 128gb sd-card with the following errors, attached. rpi-clone-error-evo64.txt rpi-clone-error-san128.txt

[sob]

Something is broken here with the /boot partition as I got the same results. Workaround was to dd the boot partition directly and then edit the cmdline.txt (something like this if I recall - it's not showing up in my bash_history): dd if=/dev/mmcblkp01 of=/dev/sda1 bs=10M count=30

and then change the root partition in /dev/sda1->cmdline.txt (mine was corrupted as well somehow)

[hendrix04]

Anyone figure this out? I am currently running into the same issue on my RPi 4.