Utilities such as Partimage are useful in a number of situations which are commonly encountered by network administrators as well as advanced computer users who maintain their own systems.

[2] For Windows users, Partimage includes experimental support for NTFS.

Partimage supports most common Linux file systems, and can be found in many Linux distributions, including Debian[3] and the live distros PING,[4] Knoppix[5] and SystemRescueCD.

Partimage is limited to cloning partitions that have supported filesystem types.

This includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, FAT12, FAT16, FAT16B, FAT32, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, HFS and NTFS.