GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663229
Make Image of Disk for recovery
Last modified: 2012-11-15 17:34:28 UTC
Disk Utility could be a great recovery tool and image maker if the feature to image disks was built into the program. Allowing someone to make an image or iso of a disk would greatly increase the usefulness of this program. It could be as simple as using dd in the back end to copy/convert a disk to an image.
Isn't this functionality covered by gparted?
Checked the features table of GParted at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php and it doesn't mention it, installed GParted, and I haven't found anything related to this. But I guess the two tools shouldn't be only complementary, so even if GParted would have it, it shouldn't mean that it isn't needed in palimpsest. It's only a wishlist item. I'm also linking the downstream report for further references. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/841479
Since 3.4, we've had the "Create Disk Image" feature, see http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/03/simpler-faster-better.html This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.