Parted Magic 3.0

Parted Magic is a live CD with one purpose: partitioning hard drives. Optimized at approximately 45MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc.) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem 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 3.0 has been updated with Linux 2.6.26, Parted 1.8.8, ntfsprogs 2.0.0, ntfs-3g 2712, and GParted 0.3.8.

Parted Magic uses Busybox for basic Unix commands and networking, and Firefox to surf the web.

The current Xserver is xorg-server-1.4.2 with the following drivers: apm, ark, ati, chips, cirrus, cyrix, glint, i128, i740, i810, mga, neomagic, nv, r128, riva128, radeon, rendition, s3, s3virge, savage, siliconmotion, sis, tdfx, tga, trident, tseng, vesa, vmware, and voodoo.The mini Xserver, Xvesa, is also available.

Parted Magic 3.0 features:

• Partition Programs
  • cfdisk - curses-based disk partition table manipulator
  • fdisk - partition table manipulator
  • gpart - guess PC-type hard disk partitions
  • GParted - partition editor that uses libparted
  • parted - partition manipulation program
  • sfdisk - partition table manipulator

• Filesystem Tools
  • diskdev_cmds - OSX-ported, HFS+ utilities supplying mkfs and fsck
  • dosfstools - utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems
  • e2fsprogs - ext2 filesystem utilities and libraries
  • FUSE - filesystem in userspace
  • hfsplus - set of tools to access HFS+ filesystems
  • NTFS-3g - third generation NTFS driver
  • ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS
  • reiser4progs - administration utilities for Reiser4 filesystems
  • reiserfsprogs - user-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
  • xfsprogs - utilities for managing XFS filesystems

• Booting Loader Tools
  • grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
  • install-mbr - installs and configures a Master Boot Record manager
  • lilo - LInux LOader
  • ms-sys - used to create Microsoft compatible boot records
  • syslinux - Linux boot loader for MS-DOS FAT filesystems

• X Utilities
  • Conky - light-weight system monitor
  • elemFM2 - file manager
  • Firefox - www browser
  • galculator - GTK+ scientific calculator
  • GPicView - GTK+ image viewer
  • gtk-lshw - GTK+ front-end for lshw
  • ISO Master - GUI CD image editor
  • Leafpad - GTK+ based simple text editor
  • PCMan - file manager
  • Terminal - terminal emulator with tabs and multiple windows
  • Thunar - file manager for Xfce desktop environment
  • Xarchiver - GTK+2 only frontend to various command line archivers
  • Xfburn - CD burning GUI
  • Xfce - light-weight desktop environment

• Console Utilities
  • bzip2 - block-sorting file compressor
  • bzip2recover - recover data from damaged bz2 files
  • dcfldd - enhanced version of GNU dd
  • dd - convert and copy a file
  • ddrescue - does not abort on errors on the input file
  • device-mapper - kernel component that supports LVM
  • di - disk information utility
  • diff - compares two files, showing differences line by line
  • disktype - detect content format of disk or disk image
  • dmraid - discover and activate software (ATA)RAID
  • file - determine file type
  • gzip - compress or expand files
  • vhdparm - get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters
  • hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal
  • lshw - Hardware Lister
  • lspci - lists PCI buses and devices in the system
  • lsscsi - lists information about SCSI devices
  • lsusb - lists USB devices
  • mdadm - manage MD devices, aka Linux Software Raid
  • myrescue - rescue still-readable data from a damaged harddisk
  • nano - editor aimed to replace Pico
  • partimage - utility which saves partitions to an image file
  • PhotoRec - digital photo recovery
  • pv - monitors the progress of data through a pipeline
  • rsync - fast incremental file transfer
  • safecopy - data recovery tool
  • sdparm - outputs and modifies SCSI device parameters
  • shred - securely delete a file
  • smartctl - control and monitor utility for SMART disks
  • TestDisk - partition scanner and disk recovery tool