This package contains documentation about partition image.

partition image is a partition imaging utility. it has support for the following file systems:
* ext2/3, the linux standard
* reiserfs, a journalised and powerful file system
* fat16/32, dos and windows file systems
* hpfs, ibm os/2 file system
* jfs, journalised file system, from ibm, used on aix
* xfs, another journalised and efficient file system, from sgi, used on irix
* ufs (beta), unix file system
* hfs (beta), macos file system
* ntfs (experimental), windows nt, 2000 and xp
only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. the image file can be compressed in the gzip/bzip2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (zip for example), burned on a cd-r, etc.