Partclone
Partition clone and restore tool
title: "Partclone" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["disk-images", "free-backup-software", "backup-software"] description: "Partition clone and restore tool" topic_path: "general/disk-images" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partclone" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Partition clone and restore tool ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Software"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Partclone |
| logo | Partclone logo icon, partclone-logo.png |
| logo size | 64px |
| screenshot | Partclone-screenshot, partclone-screen.png |
| screenshot size | 256px |
| caption | Partclone, version 0.2.51, running on Clonezilla |
| author | Thomas Tsai |
| developer | NCHC Free Software Labs |
| released | |
| latest release version | 0.3.37 |
| latest release date | {{cite web |
| url | https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/releases |
| title | Releases · Thomas-Tsai/partclone |
| website | github.com |
| access-date | 2024-06-19 |
| operating system | Linux, cross-platform |
| programming language | C |
| language | Fully translated: British English, French, Chinese |
| license | GNU General Public License |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Partclone | logo = Partclone logo icon, partclone-logo.png | logo size = 64px | screenshot = Partclone-screenshot, partclone-screen.png | screenshot size = 256px | caption = Partclone, version 0.2.51, running on Clonezilla | collapsible = | author = Thomas Tsai | developer = NCHC Free Software Labs | released = | discontinued = | latest release version = 0.3.37 | latest release date = {{cite web | url = https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/releases | title = Releases · Thomas-Tsai/partclone | website = github.com | access-date = 2024-06-19 | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | operating system = Linux, cross-platform | programming language = C | size = | language = Fully translated: British English, French, Chinese | genre = | license = GNU General Public License | website =
Partclone is a partition clone and restore tool. It provides utilities to back up and restore partitions and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system library. It is developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. It is the default backup application in Clonezilla, FOG (from version 1.00), Redo Rescue and Rescuezilla which is simply a front end to partclone. It supports many file systems and has good performance, as it skips portions of the file system marked as free space.
Utilities
Partclone currently supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs(v3, v5), xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), and exFAT. To run partclone for a particular filesystem, one uses the command 'partclone.', in a similar manner to the mkfs command
- partclone.btrfs
- partclone.ext2, partclone.ext3, partclone.ext4
- partclone.fat32, partclone.fat12, partclone.fat16
- partclone.ntfs
- partclone.exFAT
- partclone.hfsp
- partclone.jfs
- partclone.reiserfs
- partclone.reiser4
- partclone.ufs (support SU+J)
- partclone.vmfs (v3)
- partclone.vmfs5 (for vmfs v5)
- partclone.xfs
Features
Partclone is a partition image tool which attempts to only back up used data blocks. It's written in C and focuses on cloning filesystems, as opposed to cloning disks. The basic features are:
- clone partition to image file
- restore image file to partition
- restore image file to raw file as loop device
- duplicate partition on the fly
- create domain file for ddrescue
- crc32 support
- pipe support (restore from stdin | clone to stdout)
- text mode | quiet mode
- Ncurses Text interface
- rescue support
- transfer rate, elapsed time calculating
- support raw clone (like dd)
- partclone.chkimg check image made by partclone
References
References
- "Partclone- A tool to backup or restore a partition.::National Center for High-Performance Computing".
- "clonezilla - About".
- "Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery".
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::