It provides utilities to back up and restore partitions and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system library.
It is developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.
[2] It is the default backup application in Clonezilla,[3] FOG (from version 1.00), Redo Rescue and Rescuezilla which is simply a front end to partclone.
Partclone currently supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs(v3, v5), xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), and exFAT.
To run partclone for a particular filesystem, one uses the command 'partclone.