On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 14:53 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:25:34PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > > > > ntfsclone looks very cool. I created an image of my ntfs partition using > > this command: > > ntfsclone --save-image --output ntfs-backup.img /dev/hda1 > > > > I have the kernel-module-ntfs installed but when I try to mount the > > image like the man file says I get this error: > > # mount -t ntfs -o loop ntfs-backup.img /mnt/old_ntfs > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, > > missing codepage or other error > > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > > dmesg | tail or so > > > > Plus, I can mount the hda1 partition so I know ntfs is working. I > > assuming I did something incorrect in creating the backup, maybe missed > > a parameter? > > > > From reading the man page, I believe if you use the --save-image > option you get a compressed copy of the file system, but it is not an > NTFS file system. Try making an image w/o the --save-image. It will > probably be much bigger, but you can compress it when you aren't using > it. You were right, I misunderstood the man page. Thanks. James
