14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Verner, the main developer and creator of Parted Magic, announced last night the availability of a new version of its LiveCD based on Gparted and parted applications. Parted Magic 1.8 contains a lot of new features and many updated applications, such as:
￭ Added dd_rhelp, sdparm, mbr, and xfburn for starters. ￭ All menus are bypassed now. After the syslinux menu, it boots to the desktop without any other interruptions. ￭ You can now create the LiveUSB from the LiveCD by using the new 'USB Operations' program. All USB devices are detected and the user can simply pick the target drive from a dynamically-created list. ￭ Due to the many requests for a "find" frontend, the Parted Magic team created their own and you can find it in the Utilities Menu. ￭ Mounting local drives to save files has been done with the 'Mount Utility' created by the Parted Magic team. All partitions, USB drives, CD/DVD devices, and other media are detected and displayed into a "check-box" style list. That means you can mount as many (or all) devices in the list by simply checking the boxes and pressing OK. To make it more user-friendly, the team labeled each partition with its size, file system, distribution, and mounted state. CDROM and DVD drives are labeled by manufacturer and mounted state as well. ￭ A new program called 'Floppy Operations', allows now the use of floppy drives. The floppy drives are detected and added to a list like the 'Mount Utility' and you are given the option to format or mount the floppy. When mounted, 'Floppy Operations' opens in a Thunar window just like the 'Mount Utility'. ￭ Some Windows users and Linux noobs are having problems saving screenshots and other files like the GParted Save Details. Therefore, the team introduces 'Session File Saver' - an automated routine to save session files to an alternate location such as a hard drive or USB drive. It gathers files created by GParted and the other Parted Magic utilities into a zip file and saves them to a selected location. ￭ Added French keymap ￭ Some applications are now displayed in French.
The following programs were updated in this release:
￭ Linux kernel 2.6.22 ￭ e2fsprogs 1.40.2 ￭ ntfs-3g 1.710 ￭ dd_rescue 1.13 ￭ ddrescue 1.5 ￭ Leafpad 0.8.11 ￭ File 4.21 ￭ Testdisk 6.7 ￭ mdadm 2.6.1 ￭ pciutils 2.2.5 ￭ syslinux 3.51 ￭ isomaster 1.0 ￭ hdparm 7.4 ￭ xfsprogs 2.8.21-1 ￭ busybox 1.5.1 ￭ usbutils 0.72
About Parted Magic
Parted Magic is a Linux LiveCD created especially to partition hard drives with ease. To handle partitioning tasks, it is based on the very popular GParted and Parted programs.
You can download Parted Magic right now from Softpedia.