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I would like to use partclone on Linux to image an external USB-disk I have formatted with FreeBSD. I am using the Devuan GNU/Linux distribution and I have installed the partclone package. The project's README says that the tool supports the ufs filesystem through an executable partclone.ufs. The manpage installed on my system confirms this:

 ufs | ufs2 partclone.ufs

However, there is no executable partclone.ufs installed on my system. There is a file

/usr/sbin/partclone.xfs

for xfs but there is no file

/usr/sbin/partclone.ufs

Do you know if it is possible to get this tool from some other source? The documentation I have found on the partclone home page has not helped much so far.

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    It looks like Debian and its derivatives build partclone without ufs support because libufs2 is no longer maintained upstream (the most recent I could find on Ubuntu is libufs2_7.2-1 from 2009). It's challenging to build from source for the same reason - the partclone maintainer suggests those wanting all-filesystem support to Add DRBL Repository but I don't know the advisability of doing so. Commented Jul 12 at 22:54
  • @steeldriver: Thanks for the information! Somehow I hadn't found the wikipage and had been unsuccessfully trying to compile from source. If you make your comment into an answer, I will accept it. Commented Jul 13 at 8:12
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    For context, ufsutils was removed from Linux architectures in Debian in late 2013 because the project became FreeBSD-specific; it was removed from “core” Debian in 2019 with the removal of the kFreeBSD port from the main archives, and entirely dropped in 2023 when the kFreeBSD port was abandoned entirely. Commented Jul 13 at 13:43
  • Short info: I have built a custom refracta image (refracta.org) in which I have installed partclone from the alternate repository mentioned by @steeldriver. It works really well: I could archive my FreeBSD server using very little disk space. Commented Aug 18 at 9:51

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