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chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 176

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Partimage and ext4

I recently reinstalled Arch with the latest installer 2009.02 (RC2) and chose ext4 as my root system. Now, I have a second 'control' install that handles GRUB and acts as a fallback system which I also upgraded. On this second system I installed partimage. Trying to use it to make a backup image of my new main arch install resulted in a error message (something with bits, I forget).

Does anyone know if there is/might be a  problem with partimage and ext4? Google doesn't have much to say on the subject. Partimage itself represented my new partition as 'ext3fs'...?

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Partimage and ext4

http://www.partimage.org/Supported-Filesystems

Ext4fs is not listed; it likely will not work correctly.

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zhuqin

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 61

Re: Partimage and ext4

Use partclone instead
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partclone

VirtualRider

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 134

Re: Partimage and ext4

I've used the latest PartedMagic version (3.6) to create my ext4 partitions and had no problems.

But it was created with "mkfs.ext4 -j -O extent -L "" /dev/sdXX" , is there a difference to the usual "mkfs.ext4 /dev" shown in the wiki?