Download Parted Magic 4.7

Parted Magic has been updated to version 4.7. Parted Magic is a Linux distribution specifically for partitioning hard drives. In addition to GParted, it includes a number of other useful tools, including Partition Image, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, and ddrescue. The software is released under the gpl license and is available in different versions. For example, there is a live CD, a pxeversion and a version that can be used from a USB stick. Parted Magic can handle ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. Below are the major changes made in this release:

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• util-linux has been replaced by util-linux-ng.
• Firefox has been replaced by Google Chrome (Official Linux Beta version).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.