Review: Parted Magic 4.5
Every so often there comes a distribution that sets itself apart from all others in ways far beyond mention. Parted Magic is one of those. It is *the* defacto distribution for all hard drive maintenance. And the more it grows, the better it gets.
Overview
Earlier this year we looked at Parted Magic 4.0. and really found it to be a superior and superb distribution for disk management. In fact, it does its job so well that it almost goes beyond the boundaries of the distro and becomes its own self booting disk management utility.
But version 4.5 is only half a version number, a handful of point versions, beyond its predecessor, so what's so special about it that make it better? Surprisingly, a lot. You wouldn't expect this much goodness in a point version release. This is more the kind of stuff you'd see in a full version release.
And what are those? Well, the initial boot menu tells us volumes (no pun intended). Initial boot of the cd renders you a list of 13 available options, one more than the previous version. They are:
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