partclone.info - Man Page

The utility to show image head information​.

Synopsis

partclone​.info {FILE}

Description

partclone​.info is a part of Partclone project to retrieve partition head information from image files​. Partclone provide utilities to backup used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing library, e​.g​. e2fslibs is used to read the used block of ext2 partition​.

Partclone supported file system include btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs and jfs for LINUX​. Also support some non-linux operation system, ex: NTFS, FAT, EXFAT (for Windows), HFS plus (APPLE MAC OS), UFS2 (FreeBSD), VMFS (VMWare Vsphere)​. All partclone utils could be run like partclone​.xxx is very smiliar fsck or mkfs​. For example, for backup/restore hfsplus, just run partclone​.hfsp​.

Options

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-')​. A summary of options is included below​.

FILE

Image FILE​. The FILE could be a image file (made by partclone)​.

Examples

  Retriving partition usage information
    partclone​.info /home/partimag/sdb2​.img
    Partclone v0​.2​.20 http://partclone​.org
    File system:  EXTFS
    Device size:  928​.0 MB
    Space in use: 535​.4 MB
    Free Space:   392​.6 MB
    Block size:   4096 Byte
    Used block :  130708

Diagnostics

The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

partclone​.info provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:

CodeDiagnostic
0Program exited successfully​.
1Clone or Restore seem failed​.

Bugs

Report bugs to thomas@clonezilla​.org or http://partclone.org​.

You can get support at http://partclone​.org

See Also

partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.restore(8), partclone.dd(8), partclone.info(8)

Author

Yu-Chin Tsai <​thomas@clonezilla​.org​>

Referenced By

partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.dd(8), partclone.ntfsfixboot(8), partclone.restore(8).

08/27/2026 Partclone User Manual