Gus <CRTech *at* hot.rr.com> wrote: >> While I have not tried it on a linux box, I would >> think that would work simply because Acronis makes >> bit images and does not really care what is actually >> on the hard drive. (snip)
Not totally accurate. Acronis True Image (most users typically use the "home" version) does know about the format of a disk's partition. There *IS* a mode where Acronis can make a sector copy of a disk ... you'd want to do that when either the disk structure is corrupt or unknown to Acronis. Otherwise Acronis will read the FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT, etc. structure and only copy the blocks/sectors that are in-use. Bob W1QA
