Alessandro17 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Parted Magic 2.0 was released a few days ago. Parted Magic replaces very well proprietary applications like Partition Magic, Acronis Disk Director Suite... I find it also much better than GParted, a dead distribution http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04747 Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic, a specialist live CD designed for hard disk partitioning tasks: "Parted Magic 2.0 is finally released! GParted has been forked to VisParted to add features GParted doesn't have. VisParted can read and write volume labels for most supported file systems. Point and click disk wiping was added. When you mount a partition with VisParted, a Thunar window will open at the selected location. Desktop icons are automatically created for mounted CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives. The boot menu is all new and all the boot options can be displayed by hitting F1. Networking and Firefox were added to surf the web, to get help and to view the online documents. A simple 7zip package management system was created so users can add their own stuff with little effort." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver dolphin Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 It was my relief from all the trouble I had with partition managers on the distros, so I'm a long time user. I've still been amazed at how small it is!! Well, considering the linux kernel is a couple of mb's it's not that hard to believe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/#findComment-639703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 Actually since 2.6 the Linux kernel is quite a bit more than a couple of MB's However Live CDs use very effective compressed filesystems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/#findComment-640495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 2.4 = For Older/Legacy 2.6 = For Newer Hardware Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/#findComment-640860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark4181 Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Just used this to set up a quad boot system on my rig XP/ Fedora 8/ centOS/ openSUSE Parted Magic is great. Fast, non-destructive partitioning and size shifting too. Good stuff Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/#findComment-698018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 2.1 has also been released: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04777 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89571-parted-magic-20/#findComment-698037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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