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[Chachazz]

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The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Clonezilla, Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc...) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in "Live" mode.
You can review the list of programs - utilities in this package.

Features

• Format internal and external hard drives.
• Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
• Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
• Test hard drives for impending failure.
• Test memory for bad sectors.
• Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
• Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
• Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
• Runs from the CD, no install required.

Website
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[Terryala]

Parted Magic 2013_01_29

 

http://partedmagic.c...ws#.UQmas29tS8o

[Chachazz]

Parted Magic 2013_02_28

http://partedmagic.c...oku.php?id=news

[Chachazz]

Parted Magic 2013_05_01 released

 The Parted Magic project is proud to announce another stable release of the popular partitioning and system rescue environment. This has been by far the most ambitious release of Parted Magic to date. Take a look at all the new features and improvements!

EFI booting support from CDROM has been greatly improved.

Erase Disk has a new menu with translations.

f2fs-tools has been added. You an also create a f2fs with GParted. The GParted team graciously excepted our patch and merged it with version 0.16.0 of GParted.

A new “forcevesa” kernel command line option has been added. This works with cards like the MGA G200* series.

The Parted Magic Wipe Free Space GUI has been translated.

We have created a simple GTK+ GUI for chntpw. It should make changing Windows passwords much easier.

The Xorg Server has been upgraded to 1.14.1 with all the latest Xorg drivers.

SpaceFM now manages the desktop. You can now drag and drop icons to the desktop or /root/Desktop folders. The right click menu allows the creation of files and folders. That means you can keep your files on the desktop again.

Jeex and Hexedit have been added to the SpaceFM right click “Open” menu. This makes it much easier to edit files directly. “Open terminal here” and “Show hidden files” have also been added to the right click menu.

We have written a new program to help prepare USB drives for booting Parted Magic. It's called “USB Boot Flash”. This code was based off “bootflash” from Puppy Linux.

Firefox has been upgraded to version 20.0.1.

We wrote a new program called “Parted Magic Mount” and the fstab daemon has been completely redesigned. It works much faster and it's a lot more accurate then it ever has been. Because of the new design it polls every 5 seconds instead of 10. If a change is detected, the device probe and fstab changes are made in about 1 second on most machines.

GParted has been upgraded to version 0.16.1. This version corrects the segfaults found in the 0.15.0 and 0.16.0 releases. It's been well tested by us and the GParted team.

Clonezilla has been upgraded to version 3.3.10 and DRBL to version 2.3.10.

There has also been a number of added programs: chkrootkit-0.49, gdmap-0.8.1, sg3_utils-1.35, jeex-12.0, xterm-291, rdesktop-1.7.1, putty-0.62, and f2fs-tools-1.1.0.

The Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 3.8.10 with reiser4 support.

The following programs have been removed: udisks, mount-gtk, Rox-filer, feh, and imlib.

See the Changelog for a complete list of updated packages. There are a lot of them!

 

Website: »partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start
Downloads: »partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads

[Chachazz]

Parted Magic 2013_06_14

"Another month of solid development is complete, it's time to release Parted Magic with a new look and a growing number improvements. After what seems like a good part of 5 years, Parted Magic has a new desktop wallpaper! Colin Skees put together the Steampunk/Tron theme for us and I have to say it is really cool. We came up with 2 sizes and probe for screen resolution, so it looks good on most machines.

A lot of work went into Parted Magic Mount. It now auto refreshes and supports device mapper, smart phones, cameras, and Kindles. Most of the little quirks have been worked out and we honestly believe it is becoming one of the best GUI mount utilities available.

Clonezilla has been updated to 3.3.40, drbl to 2.3.28, and partclone 0.2.61.

On various blogs I have read the people need GParted to resize NTFS filesystems with bad sectors. So what we have done is patched GParted to support bad sectors in NTFS. The GParted team advises against this and we have to agree. The best solution was to have two GParted binaries. The GParted binary that resizes NTFS is located in the system section of the panel menu and is labeled “Resize NTFS with Bad Sectors”. It should be difficult to use the “wrong” one.

You can now “lock” the screen. The screen locker is located in the right click desktop menu.

The Erase Disk program now has logging.

For those users that require RDP access, Remmina has been added to the desktop.

As always Parted Magic comes with a large number of program updates. The Linux kernel was updated to 3.8.13, all the latest Xorg drivers, and a large number of core programs.

Take a look at the Changelog for the full list of program updates and changes."

 

Downloads: http://partedmagic.c...hp?id=downloads

[Chachazz]

Parted Magic 2013_06_15

• Downgraded Partclone to 0.2.60. Removal of the ”-m” flag in partclone-0.2.61 breaks Clonezilla.