Comments on: Partition images with Partimage and Partimaged http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/ An open-source software and technology related journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:13:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steven http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-1811 Steven Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:44:42 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-1811 If you want to use multicast clone, maybe you can try DRBL/clonezilla, it is based on partimage, ntfsclone, and udpcast.

]]> By: Gnot http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-130 Gnot Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:06:04 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-130 Furthermore, partimage does not include the free space in the image file. Contrariwise, dd does, but, as it has been mentioned in the previous comments, it can be cleared out. Links to the relevant projects, (G4U, G4L) can be found in the previous comments.

]]> By: Claus http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-129 Claus Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:52:21 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-129 dd is working on a block base. partimage is working on a filesystem base.

]]> By: Korger http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-117 Korger Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:14:55 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-117 I’m sorry if this question sounds stupid, but what is the advantage of partimage over basic command-line tools? For example, in what way is

# ./partimage -z1 -o -d save /dev/hdb7 /mnt/storage/test_hdb7.partimg.gz

better than

# dd if=/dev/hdb7 | gzip >/mnt/storage/test_hdb7.partimg.gz

?

]]> By: Jack Strangio http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-111 Jack Strangio Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:15:21 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-111 Just a small note of caution with partimage. I used to use partimage quite a lot to backup my NTFS partition. It worked well. However, one day I wanted to restore a partition which I had reduced in size. The size was still quite a bit larger than the amount of data which partimage had saved, but it was smaller than the partition had originally been. Partimage refused to restore the data. Oops!

]]> By: Jacob http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-110 Jacob Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:22:30 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-110 All three projects seem very interesting. At the same time I wish they could all work together to bring us one kickass product! Heck I’d even pay for it as the ghosts within Ghost can be a bit pissy at times. I would support this OSS with donations hehe.

Here’s to dreams though and here to all three projects continuing and thriving. This is a much needed area for development.

]]> By: Gnot http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-104 Gnot Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:07:41 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-104 I was just reading about G4U. I’ll also try G4L. Both seem very nice.
Before partimage I was using dd with gzip to save partitions. Now I see that besides partimage there are also some other nice projects. Thanks for posting this info.
I also suggest that you give partimage a shot.

]]> By: Michael Setzer II http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-103 Michael Setzer II Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:51:11 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-103 I haven’t used partimage, but two other projects that use the dd approach are active, and with the clearing of the free space before imaging, it is not a big issue, and handles multiple partition types.

G4U is a netbsd project that does images from a boot floppy or cd image.
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

G4L is a linux based CD project that has a gui to the creation using dialog and busybox.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

I’m currently working on the next version with a working copy that adds some new options.
ftp://fedoragcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.15.iso

Totally free by the way…

]]> By: Gnot http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-102 Gnot Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:42:52 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-102 I also believe that this project deserves more support, although I think it already provides most of the necessary features. The important thing is that I had no issues when using it and it seems that I like it much.
Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Damien http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-100 Damien Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:24:02 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/06/partition-images-with-partimage-and-partimaged/#comment-100 Unfortunately it seems that the project has gone silent, their CVS has several forks of the code – the “stable” v0.6 branch was updated seven months ago for the release of v0.6.5, while the “development” v0.7 branch hasn’t been touched in almost two years. This sounds like an awesome project that just needs a bit more support, with a bit of work it’ll have the Symantec Ghost guys running scared :)

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