14 DAY TRIAL // Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-24 is now available for download. The mass cloning live Linux distro comes with an updated kernel and new underlying packages, synced with a recent build of Debian Sid.
The latest release also adds testing support for Brtfs with the developers having successfully tested the feature with both Ubuntu and OpenSuSE installs.
"Stable Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24 has been released. This release of Clonezilla live includes major enhancements, changes and bug fixes," Steven Shiau announced the release of the latest stable Clonezilla live.
"The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2010/Sep/21)," he added.
"New file system support, btrfs, was added in this release. It has been tested successfully with Ubuntu Maverick beta restoration (/boot is ext4, the rest of partitions are btrfs), and OpenSuSE 11.3 restoration (/boot is ext3, the rest of partitions are btrfs). btrfs is still in the beta status, therefore this support is in testing, too," he explained.
Highlights of Clonezilla live 1.2.6.24:
· Linux kernel 2.6.32-23 - updated; · Partclone 0.2.15 - updated; · gPXE 1.0.1 - updated; · syslinux 4.02 - updated; · Usplash was removed; · Russian language support · "--force" was added for grub-install (grub2) when run with "-g auto".
About Clonezilla:
The Clonezilla LiveCD is a minimal Linux distribution based on Partition Image, ntfsclone, DRBL and udpcast. It allows you to mass-clone computers simultaneously.
Unlike the Ghost for Unix/Linux LiveCDs (G4L/G4U), Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard drives, which increases the clone efficiency.
Clonezilla LiveCD supports the following filesystems: EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, HFS Plus and now Btrfs in testing. Therefore, you can clone Linux, Microsoft Windows and even Intel-based Apple Mac operating systems. For other filesystems, Clonezilla uses dd to dump the whole partition.
Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-24 is available for download here on Softpedia.