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#439 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated..

Micha — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:28:24 -0000

Thank you; I will try the new version when I'm back home (apologies for the slow reply, I'm now on a dive trip) which will be in a couple of weeks; sorry.

I -did- read the issue 429; as I said, there was not a single space anywhere in any of my partition or other labels, which seems to have been the root cause of that issue. Again, if spaces cause problems, simply replacing them with an underscore or a "%20;" html escape sequence or whatever would fix them causing problems in whiptail or other dependencies. Although the proper fix would be for those dependencies to be passed properly escaped strings or have bug-reports issued against them in turn as appropriate..

Anyway, much appreciated your prompt reply and workaround, I will try it as soon as I get home!

#429 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Steven Shiau — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:49:40 -0000

Thanks for confirming that.

#429 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Bodenseematze — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:39:48 -0000

Does work here - no more "Box" errors ;-)

Good job! Thank you!

#429 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Steven Shiau — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:39:14 -0000

@Andy
Great. Thanks for confirming it's fixed in Clonezilla live 3.3.2-22.

#429 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Andy Moore — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:48:39 -0000

Hi @steven_shiau

I had this exact issue trying to back up a partition on a E14 Lenovo Thinkpad.

The stick was built using YUMI-exFAT-1.0.3.7 which uses Ventoy 1.1.11.

I had Clonezilla live 3.3.1-35 in my ISOs folder and got the "Box" error at the same ctrl-c/partition enumeration point as @Bodenseematze describes.

I copied the Clonezilla 3.3.2-22 iso to the stick and tried again and confirm that the issue is fixed.

Thanks for your prompt work Steven!

#439 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated..

Steven Shiau — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:55:50 -0000

For those using Ventoy 1.1.11 to create Clonezilla live USB stick, please update your Clonezilla live iso >= 3.3.2-22 or 20260418-*:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
We have implemented a mechanism to avoid the issue.
Let us know the resulst. Thanks.

#429 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Steven Shiau — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:55:43 -0000

#439 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated..

Steven Shiau — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:07:37 -0000

Give me some time, since I am busy these days.
However, there are some ways you can avoid that, please check:
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/429/

#439 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated..

Micha — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:59:49 -0000

FWIW, I confirm that Clonezilla Live CD 3.1.2.9 works fine.

"Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated..

Micha — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:45:37 -0000

I'm really sorry, but this issue appears to keep cropping up. Is it really that hard to escape whatever strings are causing the problem? It is really difficult to trust this software for backup/restore if it keeps failing every couple of years over something as trivial as a space character..

I have used the latest versions of clonezilla from Kali linux (5.15.25-1) as well as the latest Clonezilla Live CD (clonezilla-live-3.3.1-35-amd64.iso).

I have gone through all the troubleshooting steps from previous tickets raising this issue, and cannot find any device or partition which has any spaces in any of its labels, strings, or other ids.

Attached log from "ocs-blk-dev-info".

Please let me know what else I can provide you with to try to track down the root cause.