Supported-Filesystems

From Partimage

Since partimage copies only used block of the partition, it must know the layout of the filesystem, and cannot save unsupported filesystems. Here is the list of the filesystems currently supported:

Name	Description	State
ext2/ext3	the linux standard	stable
ext4	improved version of ext3	unsupported
reiserfs-3	a journalized and powerful file system	stable
FAT16/32	DOS and Windows file systems	stable
HPFS	IBM OS/2 File System	stable
JFS	Journalised File System, from IBM, used on Aix	stable
XFS	another jounalized and efficient File System, from sgi, used on Irix	stable
UFS	Unix File System	beta
HFS	MacOS File System	beta
NTFS	Windows NT, 2000 and XP	experimental

The NTFS (Windows NT File System) is currently not fully supported: this means you will be able to save an NTFS partition if system files are not very fragmented, and if system files are not compressed. In this case, you will be able to save the partition into an image file, and you will be able to restore it after. If there is a problem when saving, an error message will be shown and you won't be able to continue. If you have successfully saved an NTFS NTFS partition, you shouldn't have problems as you restore it (except in the case of bugs). Then the best way is to try to save a partition to know if it is possible. If not, try to defragment it with diskeeper or another tool, and try to saving the partition again.