Patrick Verner announced yesterday the availability of Parted Magic 2.0, a specialist Live CD designed for disk partitioning. It has moved on the the Linux kernel 2.6.23.13, and Gparted was removed, while at the same time forking it to VisParted.

Now, when the system boots, you can see all the boot options by pressing the F1 key. Also, you will notice that this is a a new and improved boot menu.

VisParted can read and create volume labels for most of the existent filesystems. It now has a point and click disk wiping feature. The partitions can be mounted by right clicking on them, and the Thunar file manager will open at this location. This new feature replaces the "mount utility." Desktop icons are automatically created when you mount a CDROM/DVD and USB flash drives.

Here are some of the changes available in Parted Magic 2.0:

• Updated to linux-2.6.23.13
• Updated to isomaster-1.3.1
• Updated to conky-1.4.9
• Updated to busybox-1.9.0
• Updated to testdisk-6.9-WIP
• Updated to lshw-B.02.12.01
• Updated to XFCE-4.4.2
• Updated to Terminal-0.2.8
• Updated to Thunar-0.9.0
• Updated to udev-111
• Updated to glibc-2.5.1
• Updated to gtk+2-2.10.13
• Updated to e2fsprogs-1.40.5

• The entire structure and concept of Parted Magic was rebuilt, sporting a new sudo package management system for the easy addition of user packages. Now you can create a package, put it in pmodules and the next time you run your system, it will load at boot.
• Fixed the cd burning / ejecting problem.
• Added elemfm2 and pcmanfm.
• Xorg and Xvesa configuration has been rewritten from scratch.
• Firefox and networking capabilities were added, so you can surf the web for some documents or backup files on a different computer in your local area network.
• New fstab daemon monitors /proc/partitions and updates the fstab and /media directory of any changes.
• A new GTK+ theme was added, which makes Parted Magic look much better.
• Mime/Desktop configuration is much better. Besides this, when you run Parted Magic in "low memory" mode, it uses only a small amount of RAM. Its previous versions "ate" much more of the memory than this one.

Download Parted Magic 2.0 right now from Softpedia!