Copying an image onto a FAT32 partition

[Eric]

Hi all, I did a backup with Acronis Trueimage onto an external (NTFS)
USB hard disk. I need to install Linux on another partition of this
same disk, and before I'd like to copy the image somewhere for
safety.

Is it safe to copy it to a FAT32 partition of another USB hard disk,
or should I reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS first?

Thanks.

 

[Rod Speed]

I did a backup with Acronis Trueimage onto an external (NTFS)
USB hard disk. I need to install Linux on another partition of this same
disk, and before I'd like to copy the image somewhere for safety.

Is it safe to copy it to a FAT32 partition of another USB hard disk,

It may not actually be possible, FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.

or should I reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS first?

Yes, if the file is bigger than that.

 

[Eric]

It may not actually be possible, FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.


Yes, if the file is bigger than that.

The image produced by Trueimage on the NTFS partition consists in 6
files of 4,194,304 bytes each, plus a smaller file. I don't know if
this is normal or it is normal just one a file.

I copied one of the 4.1 Gb files without problems. I take it from your
answer that everything is fine then? Is this just as good an image as
the one on NTFS?

 

[Rod Speed]

The image produced by Trueimage on the NTFS partition
consists in 6 files of 4,194,304 bytes each, plus a smaller
file. I don't know if this is normal or it is normal just one a file.

Then you can certainly copy those to a FAT32 formatted drive fine.

I copied one of the 4.1 Gb files without problems.
I take it from your answer that everything is fine then?
Yes.

Is this just as good an image as the one on NTFS?

Yes.

 

[Eric]

Thanks. I just realized that in reality the original disk is a FAT32
too, that's why the image is split, I guess.

I used a somewhat old version of Partition Magic Pro to create it
(7.0), and I'm
pretty sure I selected NTFS, but it went ahead and created a FAT32,
which I hadn't noticed until now.