Download Parted Magic 4.6 RC 1

The release candidate of version 4.6 of Parted Magic was released on Tuesday. Parted Magic is a Linux distribution specifically for partitioning hard drives. In addition to GParted, it includes a number of other useful tools, including Partition Image, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, 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 that can be used from a USB stick. Parted Magic can handle ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Key changes:

• Many fixes and changes for Netbooks.
• Parted Magic Save Session uses xz instead of 7-zip.
• Clamav was added, but you have to download the definitions yourself. There is an entry in the panel’s application launcher to automate the download. The definitions are downloaded to /root/clamav, so they will be saved in root.xz when you use Save Session.
• Flash Player can be downloaded and installed from the panel’s application launcher.
• epdfview was added so people can read hardware manuals that normally come in pdf format.
• A simple program to change the keyboard layout was added to the desktop.
• Roxterm was replaced by an svn version of LXTerminal.
• Clonezilla was removed from the main Parted Magic image because it’s not possible to make a rescue ISO without downloading a template. I kept getting complaints about this like a broken record. Now we offer Parted Magic – Clonezilla instead, which is far more reliable.
• The syslinux menus were redone to add more options and break things down into sub-menus. The boot menu is far less intimidating now. Device Mapper RAID and Linux Software RAID have been moved to RAID options for automatic assembly at boot time. Device mapper is no longer automatically started at boot.
• Super Grub Disk 1 & 2 are both included now from the syslinux “Extras” sub-menu.
• is no longer on by default.
• A slew of fixed bugs and program updates can be found in the changelog.