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# Parted Magic

If you use Parted Magic and it does its job correctly, please donate at least $2 to help continue development. It would be nice if computer professionals could donate more, especially from those earning money using this OSS software. If you donate to Parted Magic your name will be listed on the Donations page to keep things "open".

Parted Magic is a Linux LiveCD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives.

Optimized at approximately 40MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of VisParted 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, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

The latest version is updated with: Linux 2.6.23.13, Parted 1.8.8, ntfsprogs-2.0.0, ntfs-3g-1.913, and VisParted-2.0.

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

The current Xserver is xorg-server-1.3.0.0 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 falls under the terms of the GPL.

Page last modified on February 10, 2008, at 03:48 PM