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For some strange reason when I used partimage to backup my entire linux partition which is roughly 20 GB big it compressed to 12mb. Is this normal it doesn't sound right to GB. Am sure it's the right partition because it asked me to do umount /boot before it would work properly and it's the only ext3 partition on my HDD.
Last edited by linuxmandrake; 07-15-2005 at 01:38 PM.
I've only once tried partimage and that compressed the image with gzip.
There was also possibility to use bzip2, but it said that it takes much longer time and there is problem to restore MBR from image (if it's included).
I tested it to XP(ntfs) partition about 5GB and the image size was 3GB or something like that.
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