Patrick Verner announced, on May 8th, the release of Parted Magic 4.1, his Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users partition their hard disks or perform recovery tasks. This new version fixes several bugs, but also brings new features and applications. Parted Magic 4.1 resolves a scripting error that caused deb files to not load in certain scenarios. Also, to prevent overwriting of the new fstab by a "Save Session" one, mkfstab will load later in the boot sequence.

Other changes include:

· The partimag user for partimage is now added by default;
· Support for device mapper RAID partitions in fstab daemon, GParted and mount-gtk;
· New packages support: .tbz, tlz and txz;
· Numlock state is set to "on" by default in and out of X.

New packages in Parted Magic 4.1:

· Wipe 2.2.0
· Dmidecode 2.10
· mg text editor
· Reiser4 kernel patch
· boot_info_script
· Chinese fonts
· Removepkg
· UnARJ 2.65
· Hardinfo 0.5.1

Updated packages in Parted Magic 4.1:

· GParted 0.4.5
· Syslinux 3.80
· Hdparm 9.15
· SquashFS 4.0
· Linux 2.6.29.2
· Dosfstools 3.0.2
· Module-init-tools 3.7
· Glib 2.20.1
· GTK+ 2.16.1
· Udev 141
· Glibmm 2.18.2
· Vte 0.20.1
· Roxterm 1.14.2
· Fsarchiver 0.5.4
· Grsync 0.6.3
· Busybox 1.14.0
· Testdisk 6.11
· Lxpanel 0.4.0
· E2fsprogs 1.41.5
· Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10
· Lftp 3.7.13
· File 5.03
· HDT 0.3.3
· Xfsdumb 3.0.1
· Xfsprogs 3.0.1

About Parted Magic

Parted Magic is a business-card operating system based on Slackware Linux, with programs that allow you to partition hard disks with ease. Programs like Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, and a good documentation will help you in your partitioning tasks. Parted Magic is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Download Parted Magic 4.1 right now from Softpedia.