Parted Magic 2017_09_05 is now available for purchase

Sep 6, 2017 22:08 GMT  ·  By

Patrick Verner, the creator of the Parted Magic live system designed for disk partitioning, closing and erasing, as well as data recovery and rescue, and system benchmarking tasks, announced the release of Parted Magic 2017_09_05.

Parted Magic 2017_09_05 is a new major version of the commercial GNU/Linux distribution that's based on the recently released Gparted 0.29.0 open-source partition editor software, which adds key enhancements for the UDF file system, along with better support for resizing Btrfs partitions, and better detection of LVM2 PV and Btrfs change UUID capability.

The new Parted Magic release comes powered by the Linux 4.12.9 kernel and features the latest firmware version as of August 28, 2017. Clonezilla, which was personally tested by its creator, Steven Shiau, was updated to version 3.27.13, along with the Partclone and DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) tools, which are now at versions 0.2.91 and 2.25.6 respectively.

New components, other updated programs

Among other updated programs, we can mention Mozilla Firefox 52.3.0 ESR, Samba 4.4.15, OpenVPN 2.3.17, GnuPG 1.4.22, ZFS on Linux 0.7.0, Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.137, cURL 7.55.0, GD 2.2.4, BIND 9.10.5-P3, GSmartControl 1.0.2, e2fsprogs 1.43.5, btrfs-progs 4.12, spl-solaris 0.7.0, ca-certificates 20161130, nvme-cli 1.3, libgcrypt 1.7.8, and libtirpc 1.0.2.

On top of these updates, the Parted Magic 2017_09_05 release is shipping with a bunch of new components, among which we can mention atop 2.2, iotop 0.6, iproute2 4.4.0, ioping 0.9, and fio 2.20. For a complete list of updated and new packages, you can study the raw changelog on the official website.

Parted Magic 2017_09_05 is available as a free update for all existing customers, but newcomers will have to purchase the ISO image from the project's homepage if they want to use it for any disk partitioning, cloning, benchmarking, or other similar operations. Parted Magic is available as a digital download edition or USB edition.