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Re: ITP: Partition Image



On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Sergio Rua <srua@iname.com> was heard to say:
> "Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX uility which saves partitions
> in the ext2fs (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized and powerful
> file system) or FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems) file system format to
> an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to
> save disk space, and splitted into multiple files to be copied on amovibles
> floppies (ZIP for example), ..."
> 
> License: GPL 2
> URL: partimage.sourceforge.net

  Dumb question: what's the distinction between this program and dd?  I
assume there is one, or it wouldn't mention specific partition formats..

  Daniel

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