ntfsclone vs. partclone.ntfs

A partition and disk imaging/cloning program

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ntfsclone vs. partclone.ntfs

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Orgad Shaneh

Created: 2009-04-19

Updated: 2013-04-05

Orgad Shaneh - 2009-04-19

Hello,

I've noticed that in the latest testing version of clonezilla live the default cloning util used for all filesystems is partclone.

What are the differences between that and ntfsclone (for ntfs, of course)? Is it better? Might there be problems saving/restoring ntfs partitions with it?

Thanks,
Orgad

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- Steven Shiau - 2009-04-20
  
  Orgad,
  Basically partclone.ntfs and ntfsclone are the same. Both of them are based on the libntfs. However, partclone.ntfs has some improvements:
  1. CRC checking info is stored.
  2. TUI output is available for partclone.ntfs
  3. More messages are shown when running partclone.ntfs.
  
  So that's why we switched to partclone.ntfs.
  BTW, we sent the patch file (part 3 in the above) to linux-ntfs project, but so far we do not see it will be included or not.
  Anyway, please give it a try and if any problem, or if you find any performance issue, please let us know.
  
  Thanks in advance.
  Steven.
  
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