Parted Magic OS 2012.09.12 employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful software (e.g. Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc…) and an excellent set of info to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, and xfs.

Parted Magic OS requires at least a i586 processor and 312MB of RAM to operate or 175MB in "Live” mode.

Features
* Format internal and external hard drives.
* Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
* Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
* Test hard drives for impending failure.
* Test memory for bad sectors.
* Benchmark your computer for a performance rating.
* Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
* Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
* Runs from the CD, no install required.

Note: This download is an .iso file that needs to be burned to CD/DVD or USB stick. Once burned to CD/DVD, users must boot their PC from CD/DVD drive or USB stick.

Parted Magic 2012_09_12
These are some of the most notable changes from 2012_08_09. See the changelog or visit the forum for more details.
- GParted LVM support! This enhancement was written by new GParted team member Mike Fleetwood. This is a list of new LVM features:
* Physical Volume creation
* Physical Volume checking
* Physical Volume resizing (No compaction, just adjusting size above highest used block)
* Physical Volume moving using GParted's offline move capability
* Volume Group activation / deactivation
* Physical Volume deletion
- A large number of programs have been updated: mc-4.8.4, exfat-utils-0.9.8, fuse-exfat-0.9.8, firefox-15.0.1, gparted-0.13.1-git, kmod-10, alsa-utils-1.0.26, alsa-lib-1.0.26. eject-2.1.5, systemd-189, unetbootin-581, pigz-2.2.5, openssh-6.1p1, e2fsprogs-1.42.5, grep-2.14, coreutils-8.19, xorg-server-1.12.4, linux-3.5.3, bash-4.2.037, btrfs-progs-20120821, spacefm-0.7.11, udevil-0.3.2, wireless_tools.29.
- A mess of bugs has also been dealt with.
- The split_initrdimg.sh has been updated so it works with atftpd again. There were actually two issues. The bigger initbase file was 41MB and atftpd can only handle 32MB max file size. The other issue was a limit on the number of characters in the command line. The split files now have shorter names like part00.
- Some rare USB hangs have been fixed. A udev rule included with udev-182 would cause mice to become inactive. This was fixed by updating to systemd-189. We are only using the udev portion of systemd at this time.
- Please use unetbootin-581 when installing Parted Magic on a USB drive. The latest_live works now.
- The default terminal running Clonezilla has been increased so menu idem are not cut short.
- It has been reported that some new computer's BIOS can't read FAT32. This leads to a No configuration file found error. To fix this issue, simply format your USB to FAT16. This is not a bug in Parted Magic or Syslinux.

- Partition programs
cfdisk - curses-based disk partition table manipulator
fdisk - partition table manipulator
fixparts - designed to correct common problems with computer partition tables
gdisk - text-mode partitioning tool that works on GPT disks
gpart - guess PC-type hard disk partitions
GParted - partition editor that uses libparted
parted - partition manipulation program
sfdisk - partition table manipulator

- File System Tools
btrfs - btrfs is a new copy on write file system for Linux
Bonnie++ - benchmark suite aimed at performing a number of simple tests
curlftpfs - file system for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl
dbench - file system benchmark
diskdev_cmds - OSX-ported, HFS+ utilities supplying mkfs and fsck
dosfstools - utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT file systems
e2fsprogs - ext2 file system utilities and libraries
EncFS - provides an encrypted file system in userspace
fsarchiver - save contents of a file system to a compressed archive file
FUSE - file system in userspace
hfsplus - set of tools to access HFS+ file systems
IOzone - file system benchmark tool
ntfs-3g - third generation NTFS driver
ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS
reiserfsprogs - user-level tools for ReiserFS file systems
sshfs - file system client based on SSH
vmfs-tools - access VMFS through standard Linux VFS via FUSE
xfsprogs - utilities for managing XFS file systems
zfs-fuse - a port of the ZFS file system from Sun

- Booting Loader Tools
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
HDT (Hardware Detection Tool) - Syslinux com32 hardware analyzer module
install-mbr - installs and configures a Master Boot Record manager
lilo - LInux LOader
Memtest86+ - advanced memory diagnostic tool
ms-sys - used to create Microsoft-compatible boot records
syslinux - bootloaders for FAT12/16/32, bootable "El Torito” (iso9660), ext2/3/4 and brtfs file systems

- X Utilities
arandr - designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR
Conky - lightweight system monitor
emelFM2 - GTK+2 port of file manager emelFM
ePDFView - lightweight PDF document viewer
feh - an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users
File Roller - archive manager
Firefox - open source web browser
galculator - GTK+ scientific calculator
gcin - Gtk Chinese INput application in X
GEncFS - GUI to EncFS, for encrypted directory mounting
gnome-ppp - A front end to the Point-to-Point Protocol dialer Wvdial
GPicView - GTK+ image viewer
gtk-lshw - GTK+ front-end for lshw
GSmartControl - HDD health inspection tool (GUI for smartctl)
GSSHFS - GUI to SSHFS, for distant directory over SSH mounting
hardinfo - system profiler and benchmark
ISO Master - GUI CD image editor
Leafpad - GTK+ based simple text editor
LXMusic - minimalist music player for LXDE
pyneighborhood - an OpenSource GTK+ based SMB/CIFS Browsing utility
lilosetup - a GUI utility to configure LILO bootloader
LXTerminal - VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE
realvncviewer - RealVNC provides remote access software for desktop and mobile platforms
scim - Smart Common Input Method
SciTE - A free source code editor for Win32 and X
spacefm - a file manager with built-in VFS, udev-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration
systester - Test your system's stability and performance by calculating millions of digits of Pi
TrueCrypt - software system for on-the-fly-encrypted volumes
UNetbootin - create bootable, Live USB drives for Linux distros without burning a CD
WICD - A network connection manager that aims to simplify wired and wireless networking in Linux
XChat - IRC chat program
xclamscan - GUI for the ClamAV anti-virus
xfburn - Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD burning tool based on libburnia libraries

- Console Utilities
arpwatch - a tool for monitoring Address Resolution Protocol traffic on a computer network
bar - a simple tool to copy a stream of data and print a display for the user
BlueZ - official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack
bzip2recover - recover data from damaged bz2 files
cdrtools - allows recording to CD/DVD/BluRay media
chntpw - utility to (re)set passwords of local accounts on Windows systems
ClamAV - open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX
Clonezilla - OpenSource clone system
cmospwd - decrypts passwords stored in CMOS used to access BIOS setup
consoleKit - ConsoleKit is a framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions, and seats
cURL - tool for transferring files with URL syntax
dcfldd - enhanced version of GNU dd
dc3dd - patched version of GNU dd
dd - convert and copy a file
ddrescue - does not abort on errors on the input file
device-mapper - kernel component that supports LVM
di - disk information utility
diff - compares two files, showing differences line by line
disktype - detect content format of disk or disk image
dislocker - designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions under Linux and Mac OSX systems
dmidecode - reports information about your system's hardware
dmraid - discover and activate software (ATA)RAID
DRBL - Diskless Remote Boot in Linux
ELinks - text mode web browser
ext3grep - recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 file systems
extundelete - tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 file systems
file - determine file type
flashrom - identify, read, write, verify, erase flash chips
gptsync - GPT partition table to MBR partition table synchronisation
hdparm - get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters
hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal
hfsprescue - scans a damaged image file or partition that is formatted with HFS+
iptables - administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT
lftp - command-line file transfer program
lm-sensors - Linux hardware monitoring
lshw - Hardware Lister
lsof - (LiSt Open Files) displays information about files open to processes
lspci - lists PCI buses and devices in the system
lsscsi - lists information about SCSI devices
lsusb - lists USB devices
lzip - gzip-like command line tool which uses LZMA compression
md5deep - a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files
mdadm - manage MD devices, aka Linux Software Raid
Midnight Commander - file manager
multipath-tools - used to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver
myrescue - rescue still-readable data from a damaged harddisk
nano - editor aimed to replace Pico
nbd - network block device, client and server.
nmap - utility for network discovery and security auditing
ntp - Network Time Protocol
Nwipe - run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN
Open-iSCSI - Open-iSCSI project is a high performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720
openSSH - encrypt sessions using the SSH protocol
openSSL - open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols
partclone - a project similar to the well-known backup utility
partclone-utils - partclone-utils contains a utility for use with partclone generated images
partimage - utility which saves partitions to an image file
PhotoRec - digital photo recovery
pigz - parallel implementation of gzip that exploits multiple processors & cores
plzip - parallel lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm
polkit - a toolkit for handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes
pv - monitors the progress of data through a pipeline
pxz - a compression utility that runs LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple processors simultaneously
reglookup - direct analysis of Windows NT-based registry files
RP-PPPoE - PPPoE client for Linux to connect to PPPoE service providers
rsync - fast incremental file transfer
rTorrent - text-based ncurses BitTorrent client
safecopy - data recovery tool
samba - the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix
Scrounge NTFS - data recovery program for NTFS
sdparm - outputs and modifies SCSI device parameters
shorewall - a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux
shred - securely delete a file
smartctl - control and monitor utility for SMART disks
stress - simple workload generator
sudo - execute a command as another user
TestDisk - partition scanner and disk recovery tool
TightVNC-viewer - remote control software package for connecting to a vnc server
udevil - a program that mounts and unmounts devices without a password, shows device info, and monitors device changes
udisks - a daemon that serves as an interface to system block devices, implemented via D-Bus
UDPcast - transfer tool that can multicast data on a LAN
unarj - program used to uncompress .arj format archives
wpa_supplicant - implementation of an IEEE 802.11i supplicant
wipe - secure, file wiping utility
zenmap - the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI
zerofree - Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3 file-system and fills them with zeroes