Parted Magic

Parted Magic
Screenshot of Parted Magic in 2014
Developer	Patrick Verner Parted Magic LLC.
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Current
Latest release	2016_10_18 / July 11, 2016 (2016-07-11)"Parted Magic 2016_10_18 News". Parted Magic. Parted Magic LLC. 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
Available in	English
Platforms	IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type	Linux (Monolithic)
Default user interface	Openbox
License	GNU General Public License
Official website	partedmagic.com

Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution with disk partitioning and data recovery tools,^[1] 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.^[2]

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 that is built into the hard drive controller to return the drive into its factory state).

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 distribution includes networking support, and comes with the Firefox web browser.^[3]

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.^[4] x86 versions from 2013_09_26 do not require the Physical Address Extension (PAE) computer processor feature.^[5]

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.^[6]^[7]

References

↑ Shilliday, Barry. "Backup and Restore". Computeractive. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "frugal_install – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
↑ "Parted Magic". Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "start – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
↑ "Changelog – Parted Magic". Partedmagic.com. 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
↑ "Parted Magic is still free". Retrieved 13 August 2013.
↑ "Parted Magic starts charging for downloads". Retrieved 26 August 2013.

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