Re: new feature for gnu parted OR a new project: backup fat/ntfs-infos

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:14:29PM +0200, ab wrote:
> store all the meta-information (full path+filename, filesize,
> time/date would already be enough, perhaps crc's for blocks/whole
> files???) of a filesystem, in a file on linux (while windows is not
> running), and store also the sequence of the positions on the hard
> disk where the actual data-clusters are stored.

Leslie Polzer is working on integrating partimage with parted.
Partimage is useful for backing up file systems.  However, it doesn't
understand filesystems at the same level of detail that you proposed: it
just figures out which blocks are free, and write all other blocks to a
file.  This is significantly easier to implement.

Cheers,
Andrew