Parted Magicis a ~30MB LiveCD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc...

If filesystem tools are what you are looking for, Parted Magic supports the following: aufs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, ocfs2, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, and zfs.

The latest version is updated with: Linux-2.6.20.2, parted-1.8.2, ntfsprogs-200702071432 with Vista support, ntfs-3g-1.0, and GParted-0.3.4.

The current Xserver is Xorg-7.2 with the following drivers: apm, ark, ati, atimisc, chips, cirrus, cyrix, glint, i128, i740, i810, mga, neomagic, nv, r128, riva128, radeon, rendition, s3, s3virge, savage, siliconmotion, sis, tdfx, tga, trident, tseng, vesa, vmware, voodoo.

The mini Xserver Xvesa is also available.

For a full list of programs look here.

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Parted Magic is the continuation of the GParted LiveCD project that I originated (GParted LiveCD versions greater than 0.3.3 are now the work of LarryT), and falls under the terms of the GPL.

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Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool.
It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes.
It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Partition Logic is free software, based on the Visopsys operating system.
It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your
regular operating system. It is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs
as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost...

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Partition Logic supports most basic PC hardware without any additional work or configuration.

It has very modest (by today's standards) requirements:

- Pentium-class or better x86 processor.
- Supports all modern Intel x86 and AMD processors, not including Opteron/x86_64.
- 32 megabytes RAM memory (16 megabytes if operating in text mode).
- IDE (ATA) hard disks for partitioning.
- IDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive, if booting from the CD version.
- Standard PC floppy disk, if booting from the floppy disk version.
- For graphics mode, a VESA 2-compatible graphics card with linear framebuffer support.
- PS/2-syle keyboard.
- PS/2-style mouse, if operating in graphics mode.


LIMITATIONS
Partition logic has the following limitations:

- No hardware support for SCSI hard disks
- Does not work with some SATA hard disks
- Supports only DOS/Windows-style MBR partition tables (used on nearly all IBM PC-compatibles)
- No support for Sun or BSD disk labels, or EFI/GPT tables used on Itanium and Intel Mac platforms.
- Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3. Currently supports FAT (12/16/32), EXT2, and Linux swap.
- Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems. Currently supports NTFS (Windows XP) and Linux swap.
- No hardware support for serial mice
- No hardware support for USB keyboards and mice. Currently supports only PS/2 keyboards and mice
- No hardware support for PCMCIA

These limitations are intended to be fixed in future releases