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## 7. New file systems

## 7.1 I use XFS. Does partimage also take things like ACLs and other Extended Attributes into account ?

Yes. Partimage makes a physical copy of the partition. It's not a simple "tar.gz" of files. In other words, it does the same work than dd does, but it forget to copy all free blocks in order to save space and time. All blocks which are not marked as free will be copied. Then everything is kept (boot sector informations, all attributes that can exist, ...) It even keeps location of files on the disk, then the vmlinuz file won't be moved, and LILO will continue to work.

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