Linux partition types
Does DD understand the ext(n) Linux partition types, ext2, ext3, and ext4 ? Is it able to move and resize these types successfully ? What are the equivalent hexadecimal values for these types under DD ?
DD works fine with Ext2 and Ext3. It treats them both as Linux Native (0x83). The Disk Editor shows 083h in the partition table for these types.
Ext4 is not currently supported.
As long as it handles ext2 and ext3 correctly that is fine.
I hope the next release of DD will support ext4 as some of the Linux distros now use as the default when specifying partition types during installation, although one can of course choose ext2 or ext3 instead in those cases.
I think it's pretty horrid state of affairs when a disk imaging software doesn't support even imaging unsupported file systems like in this case ext4 I have ATI2010 and have tested and reported this before as a non working feature. though I dont really post in these forums I have been a active beta tester for years, helping bring some nifty features into ATI future versions.
So far ziltch no real support ever since this was a pre-release, I have to say it's becoming a bit of an habit to carry over things such as this till a whole new version is released.
Backup sector-by-sector should image whatever file system supported or not and be able to restore it with no issues. This is according to Acronis though honestly didn't quite understand how important it is specially since most of us dual triple and in my case quad boot...
This is neither supported by installed program nor and especially recovery boot disk.
Now you may see this as a normal keep the product alive campaign but with so many aspects of image manipulation, network technologies into rescue media and better backup to network attached storage but thats for another time.
Not a rant just a insight into my experience with program development quirks.
Heres waiting that ATI2010 will sport a fix for this before I die of old age. =)