** Description changed: - I erase my /dev/sda drive, including MBR and partition table. - - I restore a windows partition from an image. - I install 10.04LTS from the Live-Cd. - I end up having: - Windows partition - / partition ext3 - self made /backup partition ext3 - swap partition - - I try making an image with Acronis True image. This tells me that the partition table is incorrect. Gparted confirms this. - I now install 8.04, manully, just formatting / and leaving the other two partititons, all ext3. - - I try making an image with Acronis True image. This tells me that the - partition table is correct. Gparted confrims this. - - To me this means that the grub install of 8.04 works fine, and 10.04 - does not. Probably because 10.04 uses Grub2. - - => Later on I installed 10.04LTS with the alternate installer on a clean - formatted 16GB USB stick. The partition table and MBR are on that stick - now, with a swap space of 1GB. Again, Acronis true Image 10 signals that - the partition table is incorrect. - - => Then, I managed to make an image with paragon from that same USB - stick, without problems. - - Finally: The problem is: As off 8.10 the inode size has been changed from 128 to 256. - As a result, Acronis can no longer handle ext3 file systems. So the backup tools lag behind. + Acronis True Image 10 can only handle ext3 file systems with the default inode size 128. These are made by Ubuntu 8.04 and lower. + Solution is to use the file system made by 8.04, e.g. resulting from an 8.04 install, and overwrite with any Ubuntu version above 8.04. + Do not format the disk with any Ubuntu version above 8.04, but use the existing partitions when installing. + This keeps the old file system with inode size 128 as it was created by 8.04. Then acronis True image will work. + Acronis knows about this and will update some time later.
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