![]() Licensed under GPL, it is available as a tool in Clonezilla as well, you can download it as a package. Partclone is a free tool to clone & restore partitions, written in C in first appeared in 2007, it supports many filesystems like ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, nfs, reiserfs, reiser4, hfs+, btrfs and it is very simple to use. You can download FSArchiver and install it on your system, or you can download SystemRescueCD which also contains FSArchiver. Ability to split big files in size to a smaller one.Ability to compress the archive in many formats like lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma/xz.Ability to have more than one filesystem in an archive.Ability to restore corrupted archives by just skipping the corrupted file.Support for checksums which enables you to check for data corruption.Support for NTFS partitions of Windows and Ext of Linux and UnixLike.Support the basic filesystem attributes (label, UUID, blocksize) for all Linux filesystems.Support for extended attributes like those used by SELinux.Support for basic file attributes like owner, permissions, etc.FSArchiverįSArchiver is a continuation of Partimage, also a good tool to clone hard disks, it supports cloning Ext4 partitions and NTFS partitions, here’s a list of features: Features And qtparted is far too buggy to be trusted with any disk partitioning at all as far as I'm concerned.Related Article: How to Backup or Clone Linux Partitions Using ‘cat’ Command 4. That's the livecd however, not the installed program version, which I avoid. Overall, however, I've really come to love this tool, it's a perfect example of unix's idea of do one thing well in a small application.Įach version is more elegant than the last too, which doesn't hurt.īut it's not perfect, it is afterall at 0.2.x, which means the author knows it's not perfect, but it's pretty darned good as far as I'm concerned, it's my first choice of partitioning tools now, and it's become the first recommended choice of distros like kanotix. It has however worked fine on all the sata drives I've run it on so far, but that probably will vary motherboard to motherboard, sata chipset to sata chipset. I just keep all my gparted livecds now, usually the latest doesn't work. It's my guess that the reason knoppix worked for you, the old version, was exactly because of this oddity, you were simply using an older release of parted within knoppix. Posted 20:14 UTC (Fri) by h2 (guest, #27965)Įd_L, I've found that in certain circumstances gparted 0.1 successfully partitioned etc a disk where 0.2 failed, so I just keep a few copies around. However, version 7.1 should be released today, and I hope fixed rpm's will be available sometime next week. Not yet work acceptably of course, as Xinerama is apparently broken in Xorg 7.0. I dunno, the problem was blatant in X but not observed at the console.Įither way, FC-5 and Xorg 7.0.0 do not have this problem, so FC-5 thusfar is the only distro (32 bit or 64) I've tried that will work on this board. ![]() Killing X revealed system warnings about "unable to debounce port xxxx" or some such. Once in Xorg (version 6.8.2) however, both suffered from insufferable keyboard repeats both from PS/2 and USB connected MS keyboards. The 32-bit versions of these 4.3-based distros loaded fine. FC-5 x86-64 was the only 64bit viersion that would even load in this board: an Nividia support engineer informed me that x86-64 kernels earlier than 2.6.14 cannot cope with the RD480's lack of an extended IOMMU. The distro's I tried were FC-5, CentOS 4.3, and the work-alike Scientific Linux 4.3. But it was necessary, and Knoppix certainly did kill it.Īs an aside on FC-5, the mainboard is an Abit AT8 RD480-M1575, so loading Linux at all was a bit of a gamble. Yes, Knoppix 4.0.2 from 7 months ago should certainly be considered unnecessary overkill for such a simple job. If your mileage has varied, I'd certainly like to know. It would not partition the SATA drive either. It would not partition my primary SATA drive. My first choice was Gparted LiveCD 0.2.4-3 (latest). But a clue as to the rational behind its decisions in the release notes or marginal help would be useful, as would an "expert customization" button that would allow one to opt for Parted instead.)īut as such option is sorely lacking in FC-5, I was reduced to using a third-party parted LiveCD for the initial disk partitioning. (Actually, Disk Druid does fine if you are fine with what it does. Earlier this month I configured a new workstation to boot multiple Linux Distros, so I needed a partition editor somewhat more capable than the pathetic excuse that is Fedora's Disk Druid. ![]()
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