Parted Magic 4.7 hasbeen released

Posted on 22.12.09 by BerITComp

Patrick Verner has released Parted Magic 4.7, a small live CD with a collection of hard disk partitioning, hardware testing and data rescue tools.
Parted Magic 4.7 adds and removes some programs and fixes a few bugs.

Key changes:

* Partclone 0.1.9 was added again despite Clonezilla being removed. People still wanted to use it from the command line.
* Xfburn and libburnia are replaced by simpleburn and cdrtools.
* LXMusic-0.4.0 was added with a very limited xmms2 build. Just enough to allow this program to work.
* util-linux is replaced by util-linux-ng.
* Firefox is replaced by Google Chrome (Official Linux Beta version).
* Linux is updated to 2.6.32.2 with squashfs-lzma compression.
* A mistake in the kernel config was fixed and Broadcom wireless drivers work again.
* Some major problems were fixed in the wireless scripts.
* lsof_4.78, workman_1.3.4, hddtemp-0.3-beta15 were added.

Updated Programs: boot_info_script036, hdt-0.3.6, linux-2.6.32.2, ntfs-3g-2009.11.14, openssl-0.9.8l, udev-149, coreutils-8.1, grep-2.5.4, module-init-tools-3.11.1, startup-notification-0.10, vte-0.22.5, freetype-2.3.11, lftp-4.0.4, sed-4.2.1, wpa_supplicant-0.6.9, ddrescue-1.11, gdisk-0.5.1, grsync-0.9.3, gparted-0.5.0, gtk+-2.18.5, openbox-3.4.9, fsarchiver-0.6.2, lxpanel-0.5.4, menu-cache-0.2.6, smartmontools-5.39, libxml2-2.7.6, syslinux-3.84

About Parted Magic :
The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc...) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in "Live" mode.

Features
* Format internal and external hard drives.
* Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
* Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
* Test hard drives for impending failure.
* Test memory for bad sectors.
* Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
* Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
* Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
* Runs from the CD, no install required.