Re: backup partition

I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was
using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp
install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu
12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs
partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still
won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs
partition.

After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that
hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll
reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any
programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for
anything I want programs running on xp to have access to.

Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4
and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4
partition. Which would be the better option?

thanks

On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it
> is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to
> make it easy to do.
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter<expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files
>> to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost.
>> I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Derek
>>
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