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- skidzilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21No, only true Linux Ninjas. If you're a pirate, the CD will explode in your drive, killing you instantly. ;)
- Jeffrey903, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Download:
http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/GParted-Clonezilla/gparted-clonezilla-1.7.iso - democracysucks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Better than System Rescue CD?
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Backs up my entire install--ONLY written data--in a compressed file in less than 10 minutes. - lippyjka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Of course, you should have known all that, since you took the time to complain."
Dugg for good come back :P - democracysucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not only that, but gparted is NOT the tool that backs up partitions. PartImage is. The software this article is about uses CloneZilla--completely different.
Of course, you should have known all that, since you took the time to complain. - wisam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do you even know what you're talking about? Gparted is a partition manager. It formats, create, resize, and deletes partitions. Compare it to Partition Magic.
Partimage is the partition backup tool you probably meant to talk about. You really have a point about partimage not restoring an image to a partition smaller than the backed up partition even if the actual backed up data is less in size than target partition. That's probably the only thing that annoys me in partimage. Regardless of that, it's great. - m1ss1ontomars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Will GParted allow me to grow/shrink my Boot Camp partition? I don't want to buy iPartition, and I don't feel like backing up my data at the current moment, but that's probably because I have nowhere to back it up to :(.
- celerate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ lippyjka
The underlying distribution matters too, not so much for back-up speed, but with other features like non-Linux FS support, automatic mounting of storage devices, and possibly some other features like providing instructions after boot up, or automatically taking care of the above and tossing you right into the app instead of expecting you to know how to start it from a console with no instructions. - eFiniTi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Probably had something to do with the kernel not supporting your sata controller or the driver being buggy. This happened last year with the previously new intel p965 express chipset my brother had. Luckily they fixed it in time for Suse 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10. :)
If you had that happen sometime last year then its most likely fixed by now. - LogicX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2USA mirror: http://mirror3.fpux.com/gparted-clonezilla/gparted-clonezilla-1.7.iso
- nick0909, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Can I replace my regularly purchased versions with this as well, or are only pirates allowed to use this?
- alabamawanderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ummm... I'm not impressed. Butt dugg it for some reason.
- lippyjka, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Erm.... I just followed your link Democracysucks... and there on the frontpage, first under 'system tools included' it says GParted. So to answer your question: it will probably exactly the same, although you should have known that seeing you gave me the link...
- wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Looks pretty cool, I'll try it out.
- studge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ubunterd
The program on SystemRescueCd for backing up in under 10 minutes is PartImage - all speeds being relative
@lippyjka
GParted is a partitioning tool available on a lot of distributions, having it on this one does not make it the same - the tool in question is PartImage, not GParted, and it is used for backing up a partition, not resizing it - btw, SystemRescueCd is built on Gentoo Linux
The tool in the article, Clonezilla, distinguishes itself from PartImage in that it can back up a whole drive - not just the individual partitions - Zero456, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Unlike G4U or G4L, in Clonezilla, if file system is supported, only used blocks in harddisk are saved and restored."
Sounds about the same to me. - EmxBA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty cool thing, GParted Clonezilla makes cloning really simple.
- al876ani, on 08/11/2008, -1/+0http://forums.m7taj.com/thread16017.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread15917.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread18622.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread478.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread7734.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread23663.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread22603.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread478.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread23967.html http://forums.graaam.com/112544.html http://forums.graaam.com/87089.html http://forums.graaam.com/81947.html http://forums.graaam.com/51450.html http://forums.graaam.com/81178.html http://forums.graaam.com/107437.html http://forums.graaam.com/113874.html http://forums.graaam.com/96993.html http://forums.graaam.com/93604.html http://forums.graaam.com/109029.html http://forums.graaam.com/100885.html http://forums.graaam.com/94805.html
- ritch0s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ive had trouble with GParted on SATA RAID 0 drives - they were not recognised :( I hope since then they have fixed it with better support.
- lindapuzhgena, on 11/09/2007, -2/+1Quite doubtful. A bit arrogant, I think. http://fishtalks.blogspot.com
- windrider99, on 11/09/2007, -3/+0willow you websites are not working lol there is a typo.. its http://www.agoradirectory.net - http://www.alphadirectory.net - http://www.alphalinks.info and http://www.awesome-directory.com !
nice directories.. - hezar99, on 11/09/2007, -3/+0Thanks to this great information
http://www.2s2s.com/sit.html - willow99, on 11/09/2007, -3/+0Looks very interesting, I'll try it out too, for some reason i like their website, i will link to them from my beautiful directories http://www.agoradirectory.net, http://www.alphadirectory.net, http://www.alphalinks.info and http://www.awesome-directory.com! i think open source is really the solution to pirated products, since people will steal and use the programs for free, why not just make them free from the beginning and think of other ways to monetize these softwares, example ads..
- mhmdkhamis, on 11/09/2007, -3/+0Pretty cool thing, GParted Clonezilla makes cloning really simple.
http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum
http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/forum53.html
http://soft.paramegsoft.com/ - celerate, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2@wisam
My bad, I haven't used the tools in a long time so I did confuse them. Like my boss (veteran geek) says at work, we're all human.
There are still better commercial tools out there than the ones mentioned if you expand your target audience beyond Linux, Acronis Disk Director Suite is far better than Gparted for example. I stand by what I was saying before, these free tools are fine, but they're being hyped as better even though they're not because they're free and appeal to a niche. - ubunterd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Wow 10 minutes?
Which of the system tools on the System Rescue CD do you use to accomplish this? - hppyfngy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3sysrescue cd doesn't work for me and my edgy box.
oh, for a minute there I imagined somebody cared about that...
sorry - celerate, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I haven't tried Clonezilla yet, but I can say beyond all certainty that GParted is completely out of it's league compared to True Image. With GParted any partition being restored must be restored in a space that is either *exactly* the same size or larger regardless of space usage on the backed up partition. Automatic mounting of USB storage or the ability to write to NTFS volumes is entirely dependent on the host OS and in the case of many pre-made rescue CDs isn't automatic at all. There is no browse features in the software to find your back-up archive so you have to type in the full path.
True Image is a professional product with none of the above downfalls, it's straightforward, solid, and you'll still know how to use it six months or a year after the last time you've used it. The only think it might lack is the ability to back-up and restore individual files from non-windows partition types, and then it can still back-up and restore the entire partition, which is the only thing Gparted does right there. True Image is a tool geared primarily at Windows users, it does more than back-up partitions or individual files, it's a full Windows back-up solution that can make back-ups from within the OS either manually or on a schedule no matter what you are doing in the OS at the time. I suppose it's a given that 90% of it's features would be ignored since the article targets a Linux audience, and most of the features are intended for use in Windows, but neither the summary or article admit this bias.
In short, the above article and summary don't do justice to the commercial tools they're comparing to these free alternatives.
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