Why Parted Magic and not SystemRescueCd?
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Why Parted Magic and not SystemRescueCd?
Why not have SystemRescueCd instead of Parted Magic? SystemRescueCd has a lot of tools already categorized by the UBCD menu. SystemRescueCd I beleave has more tools then the Parted Magic.
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Parted Magic - Programs.
What other usefull tools dose Parted Magic have for windows users?
See: http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic ... c.Programs
Some usefull utilities:
Some usefull utilities:
- GParted -partition editor that uses libparted (can resize and shrink partitions without loosing your data)
ddrescue -does not abort on errors on the input file (can copy data of a damaged hard disk to a new hard disk)
myrescue -rescue still-readable data from a damaged harddisk
partimage -utility which saves partitions to an image file (Harddisk Image Cloning utility)
PhotoRec -digital photo recovery (can also recover files from a hard drive when the filesystem is damaged)
TestDisk -partition scanner and disk recovery tool (e.g. reconstruct partition table, write new MBR, ...) ==> (this utility has rescued me several times)
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Why not Slax?
Why not slax linux as it allows adding modules like UBCD dose? It is a version of linux designed to be small and powerfull. http://www.slax.org/
What does slax have when you boot it?
Does it have: GParted, ddrescue, myrescue, partimage, photorec, testdisk, ... other usefull recovery tools?
I think Slax is more a small desktop system, not a rescue/partiton system.
It seems a nice distro to me, but I think it is not suitable for the goal of UBCD. You can probably easily include it yourself because it probably will also use isolinux.
Parted Magic size is 44 MiB (4 times smaller). We can extend it with antivirus software and other tools if we want. Make a 7zip archive of the files that the program needs and place it in /pmagic/pmodules
See the antivirus topic for examples of the 7zip archives, It is made for Parted Magic 2.2. In the new version of Parted Magic 3.0, the files should be inside a /usr folder first, because it unpacks the files in /. Parted Magic 2.2 unpacks files directly in /usr.
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Does it have: GParted, ddrescue, myrescue, partimage, photorec, testdisk, ... other usefull recovery tools?
I think Slax is more a small desktop system, not a rescue/partiton system.
I think that Victor also find it to big (189MiB).XWindow system, KDE desktop with K-Office, Internet browsing, e-Mail, Instant messaging, CD/DVD burning and ripping, Audio and Video encoding, Multimedia players, all and even more is included in Slax.
It seems a nice distro to me, but I think it is not suitable for the goal of UBCD. You can probably easily include it yourself because it probably will also use isolinux.
Parted Magic size is 44 MiB (4 times smaller). We can extend it with antivirus software and other tools if we want. Make a 7zip archive of the files that the program needs and place it in /pmagic/pmodules
See the antivirus topic for examples of the 7zip archives, It is made for Parted Magic 2.2. In the new version of Parted Magic 3.0, the files should be inside a /usr folder first, because it unpacks the files in /. Parted Magic 2.2 unpacks files directly in /usr.
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All included in modules.
All the tools you asked about can be added as Modules. It is 189mb though. Never mind then, it was just a though. I typicaly use a full blow distro live CD to make my needed Linux tweaks. I am excited about parted magic as part of UBCD though and will be excited when it's no longer a bata.