Best app for creating disk images?

[Thomas]

Can diskimage mount the output ?

Generally speaking yes. But if you work on harddisk partitions, it might depend on the file system used. SFS partitions for example become NDOS if the start sector changes. So if you make a single-partition HDF of an SFS partition, it won't mount because the start sector changes from whatever it was to 0.

[Thomas]

Imagine you have an 8 GB harddrive with two partitions. The layout might look like this:

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0  2016              3904992                                          15624000
+--+--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
|PT|  System-Partition  |                Work-Partition                      |
+--+--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
PT = Partiton Table


If you only image the System partition the image file will contain this:

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0              3902976
+--------------------+
|  System-Partition  |
+--------------------+

And if you image only the Work partition the image file will be like this:

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0                                             11719008
+----------------------------------------------------+
|                Work-Partition                      |
+----------------------------------------------------+


On the harddrive the partitions started at sector 2016 resp. 3904992. In the image files they start at the beginning of each file.