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Linux & TI work better in new version?

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I have TI 10 and use it to image Vista and Ubuntu Linux. This subject was addressed on the old forum, but now the old forum is  gone and so are the posts.

The issue is that when I first installed a previous version of Ubuntu Linux, TI 10 imaged it at a pretty fast pace and didn't complain about "disk errors". That's because the older version of Ubuntu had a certain default sector size (I think that's the parameter) that was what TI 10 expected to see when looking at the disk.

Then a later version of Ubuntu re-formatted the disk, and used a different sector size, and it caused TI 10 to complain about "disk errors". You can go ahead and image the disk, and it will restore, but it takes a looooooooooong time because it does it sector by sector, because it doesn't like the new sector size that Ubuntu uses.

Here's my question: Does the new version of TI fix this problem when imaging linux? Does it still expect to see a certain sector size or will it adjust to other sizes. I need to know this before spending money on a new version because it's an important aspect to me.

P.S. - I am not a "beginner" like the title under my name implies!

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mikex:

The problem you are describing is that earlier TI versions do not support Linux ext3 file systems with inode sizes of 256 Bytes (inode-256). Support for inode-256 was added to one of the TI 2009 builds, so the current TI 2010 version should support it.

Another alternative if you want to want to continue using TI 10 is to format your Linux partitions as inode-128 when installing Ubuntu instead of accepting the installer defaults. You may want to use the Ubuntu Alternate Installer CD for more control over the install process. An advantage of TI 10 is that you can save the archive to an ext3 partition and you can view and open files on ext3 partitions while running the Windows version of TI 10. You can't do this with the newer versions of TI.

K0LO wrote:

Support for inode-256 was added to one of the TI 2009 builds, so the current TI 2010 version should support it.

Thanks for the response. It sounds like it might, although I'm a little unsure because you say "should". Did you mean "will"? Is there any documentation I can refer to on this issue?

mikex:

I used "should" because I haven't tried it personally and it isn't listed explicitly in the TI 2010 User Guide. However, once Acronis adds support for a given feature it will get carried forward into future builds. Support for inode-256 was added in TI 2009 build 9709 per this post from Acronis Support (see post #5).