Parted Magic 2.0 with New Visparted Tool

The program is a fork of the graphical Gparted 0.3.3 tool. In addition to the functionality provided by its predecessors, Visparted supports point and click deletion and mounting of partitions. On mounting, a file manager is additionally launched to display the contents of the mounted directories. According to its makers, Visparted supports the Ext2, Ext3,FAT32, HFS+, JFS, NTFS, Reiser4, and XFS filesystems among others. A table on the Parted homepage provides full details.

The system uses kernel 2.6.23.13 and only takes 40MB of space meaning that the bootable image will fit on a business card-sized CD. To save space, Busybox provides the functionality of various Unix commands; this said, Ddrescue and Cfdisk are included as separate utilities. In combination with Dropbear SSH, the XFCE desktop and the Firefox browser, Parted Magic is a full-fledged minimal system for partitioning, data recovery and Web research.

The Download page includes images for mini CDs, USB sticks and for network-based boot via PXE. The project is asking satisfied customers to donate to the project via Paypal.