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Parted Magic
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Screenshot of Parted Magic in 2014
DeveloperPatrick Verner
Parted Magic LLC.
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateCurrent
Latest release2016_03_02 / March 2, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-02)[1]
Available inEnglish
PlatformsIA-32, x86-64
Kernel typeLinux (Monolithic)
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user interface		Openbox 3.5.2
Official websitepartedmagic.com

Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution with disk partitioning and data recovery tools,[2] sold as a Linux-based bootable disk. The distribution's nomenclature is derived from the name of the software package GNU Parted.

Features

The program is directly bootable from a CD, USB flash drive, or through a network using PXE on PC hardware, and does not require installation, or the presence of an installed operating system.[3]

Although originally designed for mechanical hard disk drives, Parted Magic is suitable for use also with solid state drives and can perform an ATA Secure Erase (a method to return a drive to its factory state that is built into the hard drive controller).

Parted Magic supports reading and writing to a variety of modern file systems, including ext3, ext4, FAT, exFAT, and NTFS, and as such is able to access disk drives formatted for use under Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux systems.

The software's distribution includes local network and Internet support, and comes with the Firefox web browser.[4]

System requirements

As of version 11.11.11, Parted Magic supports Intel x86 and x86-64 processors natively, and requires a computer with at least an i586 Intel-compatible processor and 175MB of RAM.[5] x86 versions from 2013_09_26 do not require the Physical Address Extension (PAE) computer processor feature.[6]

Availability

Up to version 2013.08.01 the distribution was freely available for download from the official website and the project page on SourceForge. The distribution moved to a pay-for-download business model to offset the costs associated with packaging a Linux distribution.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Changelog – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. ^ Shilliday, Barry. "Backup and Restore". Computeractive. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  3. ^ "frugal_install – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Parted Magic". Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  5. ^ "start – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Changelog – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Parted Magic is still free". Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  8. ^ "Parted Magic starts charging for downloads". Retrieved 26 August 2013.
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