Some of you already knew about the popular GParted LiveCD, a Linux-based operating system that can help you partition your hard drives, and of course about the Clonezilla LiveCD, another Linux-based mini OS that can help you clone systems. Based on Partition Image, DRBL, ntfsclone, and udpcast, Clonezilla allows you to massively clone many computers simultaneously. Unlike Ghost for Unix/Linux LiveCDs, Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard drives. This increases the clone efficiency. GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD was born from these popular LiveCDs (GParted and Clonezilla) to bring you more power and efficiency on your daily tasks (hard disk partitioning and cloning).

Here are some features of Clonezilla:

￭ Filesystems supported: ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, and FAT, NTFS. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux or Microsoft Windows. For other filesystems, Clonezilla uses dd to dump the whole partition.
￭ LVM2 under GNU/Linux is supported.
￭ Multicast is supported in PXEBoot Clonezilla, which is suitable for massively cloning. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
￭ Unlike ntfsclone and Partimage, which are created only for partitions, Clonezilla contains some other programs that help you save and restore not only partitions, but even a whole disk.
￭ Unlike Ghost for Linux or Ghost for Unix, in Clonezilla, if the filesystem is supported, only used blocks in hard drives are saved and restored. This increases the clone efficiency. For unsupported filesystems, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
￭ A single machine clone system without installation, Clonezilla live, is also available.

Please enjoy some screenshots of GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD:



You can download GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD now from Softpedia.