Download Parted Magic 2013.05.01

A new version of Parted Magic has become available. This Linux distribution is specifically for partitioning hard drives. In addition to GParted and Parted, it includes a number of useful tools, including Partition Image, TestDisk, TrueCrypt, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, and ddrescue. The software is released under the gpl license and is available in different versions. For example, there is a live CD, a pxeversion and a version for computers with older hardware on board. Parted Magic can handle ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Parted Magic 2013_05_01

• 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 than 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!