14 DAY TRIAL // Parted Magic 4.10 has been released, bringing a number of updated and new packages, as well as fixing several bugs. Parted Magic is a very specialized live CD/USB Linux distribution designed primarily for partitioning hard drives. As the name would imply, the main tools are Gparted and its command line counterpart Parted, but Parted Magic 4.10 comes with several other useful tools, as well as some general utilities that may come in handy, like the Chromium web browser.
Highlights of Parted Magic 4.10
Updated packages: · Linux kernel 2.6.32.11; · Grep 2.6.3; · BusyBox 1.16.1; · SSHFS FUSE 2.2; · SimpleBurn 1.5.0 - CD/DVD burner.
New packages: · EncFS 1.5.2 - encrypted FUSE-based filesystem; · GEncFS 1.0.0 - graphical front end for EncFS; · GSSHFS 1.0.0 - graphical front end for SSHFS; · RLog 1.4 - logging utility; · UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) 429 - tool for creating live USB environments; · emelFM2 0.6.0 - file manager.
Bugs fixed:
· GParted failure to reload partition table before format; · Issue with non-English characters in FAT32 - now mounts as UTF8 by default; · GPicView segmentation fault - introduced in Parted Magic 4.9; · Live-CD 4.9 failure to boot from SCSI - many enhancements to SCSI booting; · Chromium crash when bookmarking a page.
The main partitioning utility, Parted, was updated with a patch originally from the Ubuntu developers. The patch reversed "decision to use a BLKRRPART instead of the BLKPG ioctls that worked," Patrick Verne, creator and main developer of Parted Magic, said in the official announcement on the project's homepage. Parted Magic 4.10 comes after a much bigger release, Parted Magic 4.9, which listed a big number of updated packages and several bug fixes or enhancements. It also made the switch from Google Chrome to the open-source Chromium.
Parted Magic 4.10 is available for download here on Softpedia.