[ltp] Disk Imaging Software

[Andrew Crawford]

Greetings,

The open source Partition Image supports NTFS partitions as well as 
other standard formats:

http://partimage.org

Although there is a note on the site about NTFS only having partial 
support, I have used it to image and restore dozens of NTFS partitions 
(mostly on freshly-installed systems) without incident.

Partition Image is included or available as options for several of the 
standard boot disc Linux distributions (including Knoppix).  There is 
also one available as an ISO image from the Partition Image site.

I generally back up the MBR (using dd) and partition table (using 
sfdisk) separately for a complete restore solution.

Of course, the bit imager g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) has already 
been mentioned.

Andrew Crawford

vngarla@tiscali.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations regarding disk imaging software.  I have
> a dual boot Windows / suse linux t40p, and I'm using ntfs for one windows
> partition.  AFAIK there isn't any open source software which can write to
> NTFS partitions, and knoppix doesn't help me out here.  Is there any commercial
> software which does this?  I looked at Norton Ghost, and it says it can
> handle ext3, but will only work for LILO on the MBR.  
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Vijay