Afgelopen donderdag is versie 2.1 van Parted Magic uitgekomen. Parted Magic is een 40MB grote Linux-distributie die bedoeld is om harde schijven te partitioneren. Het programma wordt onder de gpl-licentie uitgebracht en is in verschillende uitvoeringen verkrijgbaar. Zo is er een live-cd, een pxe-uitvoering en een versie die vanaf een usb-stick kan worden gebruikt. Parted Magic kan overweg met ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4 en xfs. Hieronder is een overzicht te vinden van alle veranderingen die in versie 2.1 zijn doorgevoerd:
Changes in Parted Magic 2.1[break]
- Updated to linux-2.6.24.2.
- Updated to testdisk-6.9.
- Updated to syslinux-3.61.
- Updated to partimage-0.6.7.
- Updated to busybox-1.9.1.
- Updated to pcmanfm-0.3.6.
- Updated to ntfs-3g-1.2216.
- VisParted now creates ext4 file systems. Parted still detects them as ext3, so you can check it with blkid to make sure it's really ext4. If a coder out there can help me with this issue, please contact me.
- Fixed PXE booting.
- Fixed Multiboot CD problem. Replace "livecd"/"liveusb" with "multiboot" in the syslinux.cfg/isolinux.cfg.
- Merged "List Partition Tables" into VisParted.
- Added nc (netcat) and some other networking programs to busybox.
- Added squashfs-lzma kernel drivers. The initrd moved back to an ext2/gzip initrd and the pmagic file is now compressed with lzma compression. Use mksquashfs and unsquashfs in Parted Magic to deal with this file. This allowed some free space to add a bunch of new kernel drivers.
- Added all upstream changes from GParted CVS. (0.3.5+)
- If you select "Help" from the "Help" menu in VisParted it launches Firefox to the Parted Magic documents.
- Removed the gtk+ H20 theme and replaced it with Clearlooks. People didn't seem to like the new theme. :(
- Fixed xxd and dd placement oops.
- Fixed missing pmodules directory in the make USB program.
- Fixed the desktop files getting deleted bug.