PARTCLONE.INFO(8)

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💅 PARTCLONE.INFO(8) — the partclone user manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so first things first: this is partclone.info, and it lives in the Partclone User Manual, section 8 (that's the sysadmin-y section, iykyk). buckle up 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

partclone.info — literally the utility that shows you image head information. that's it. that's the whole job. and she ate 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

partclone.info {FILE}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

partclone.info is part of the Partclone project, and her whole thing is retrieving partition head information from image files. Partclone serves up utilities to back up used blocks, and it's designed for higher compatibility with the file system by using existing libraries — like, e2fslibs is what it uses to read the used blocks of an ext2 partition. iconic library reuse behavior, no cap ✨

the file systems Partclone supports include btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs and zfs for LINUX. she also supports some non-linux operating systems, e.g. NTFS, FAT, EXFAT (for Windows), HFS plus (APPLE MAC OS), UFS2 (FreeBSD), VMFS (VMWare Vsphere) 🌈

all partclone utils can be run like partclone.xxx — it's very similar to fsck or mkfs. for example, to backup/restore hfsplus, just run partclone.hfsp. so simple, so demure 🎀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

the program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below 👇

  • FILE — the Image FILE. this FILE can be an image file (made by partclone). that's the one, bestie 🫶

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

retrieving partition usage information — look at her go, main character energy:

partclone.info /home/partimag/sdb2.img
Partclone v0.2.20 http://partclone.org
File system:  EXTFS
Device size:  928.0 MB
Space in use: 535.4 MB
Free Space:   392.6 MB
Block size:   4096 Byte
Used block :  130708

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

the following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

partclone.info provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:

  • 0 — Program exited successfully. slay 🎉
  • 1 — Clone or Restore seem failed. 😭 (note: that's "seem", not "seems" — we don't fix the originals around here, we respect them)

🐛 BUGS 🐛

report bugs to thomas@clonezilla.org or http://partclone.org.

you can get support at http://partclone.org 🌸

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

(yes, partclone.info(8) is listed in her own SEE ALSO. self-referential queen behavior, we love to see it 💅)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Yu-Chin Tsai <thomas@clonezilla.org>

Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai

this manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it, it's giving required reading 📚

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this beauty is from partclone.info, dated 10/28/2026, in PARTCLONE.INFO(8) — mwah, go forth and inspect those image heads 🎀✨

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