Questions tagged [parted-magic]

A LiveCD distro with tools for complete hard disk management

From https://partedmagic.com:

Disk Partitioning Parted Magic is loaded with tools to get the job done. With the Gnome Partition Editor you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss enabling you to grow or shrink your C: drive, create space for new operating systems, and attempt data rescue from lost partitions.

Disk Cloning Use the powerful Clonezilla to clone a computer's entire disk or a single partition to a separate storage device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, an SSH server, a Samba Server, or an NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.

Data Rescue Parted Magic allows you to easily reset or change Windows passwords, recover lost files, and rescue files from devices with read errors.

Disk Erasing Need to wipe your drive of all data? No problem. Parted Magic comes with easy to use solutions for conventional overwrites via NWipe (DBAN clone), Internal Secure Erase, and wiping of only Free Space.

Benchmarking All the benchmarking tools you would ever need! Bonnie++, IOzone, HardInfo, System Stability Tester, mprime, and stress.

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Changing HFSPlus UUID from PartedMagic

I needed to make a clone of my hard drive recently (bad blocks FTW). I was using Clonezilla at the time. However, Clonezilla refused to copy the HFS+ partition, so I did it manually. The problem is that the UUIDs are out of sync. What is the command…
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USB mouse not working

Every time I plug in any wired mouse recently, I get similar to the below on VCS1: [1443270.286164] usb 6-1: new low-speed USB device number 15 using uhci_hcd [1443270.454270] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0083 …
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A window disappeared after I pressed a key in Openbox, how do I bring it back?

I had Firefox running, then (possibly) as a result of a key combination I don't recall, it quickly vanished from screen and Task Bar/Window List. From my other question it was established the issue is likely that I made the window disappear, though…
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SciTE Auto Save Temporary File

I was running an application that seemingly froze the GUI of my Linux distro. After a CtrlAlt Backspace I got back to a terminal and reloaded the GUI. However, even with the below User Options settings, when I reloaded SciTe, I didn't get my session…
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ddrescue recovering 0B but drive appears in device manager. Is it failing to connect?

I have a failing 2TB Seagate Barracuda drive which came from a GoFlex Home NAS. First sign of trouble came when the drive showed all its root folders and sub-directories as empty, although windows (via a mounted share) still displayed the expected…
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Disable hardware ad-hoc

I am running Parted Magic doing some data recovery, that I am finding myself concurrently using for some other minor tasks also. Problem being, typing is a nightmare, as the trackpad is enabled (No hardware way of disabling it), and seemingly very…
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Portable software for the Posix world

Is there any "portable" software for Linux (i.e., Ones that can just be un-tar'd and used, instead of in rpm, or similar format. to be used in conjunction with a package manager)? Also, are there any caveats to this that don't exist for Windows…
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No space left on device / No Inodes free OR used / Double mounting

For about a day now I can only create/cp/mv (through terminal or various GUI programs) files on my FAT16 formatted USB stick, of about a few bytes. Doing so with larger files reports cannot create regular file 'XXX': No space left on device I have a…
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Editing grub menu with secure boot enabled Ubuntu/PartedMagic

I have laptop DELL latitude 5491 with preinstalled Windows 10 with secure boot enabled and EFI mode. After I purchased, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 next to Windows as a dualboot with still secure boot enabled/EFI. Partitions 2,3 and 5 are for Windows…
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Load entire live system into RAM?

If I boot Linux without installation (i.e. from live DVD), how can I load the entire disc into RAM in order to be able to re-use the drive? It is possible with PartedMagic already. How can I do it with Linux Mint?
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Use Parted Magic with YUMI

I've tried putting parted magic versions on an flash drive using YUMI but every time I get an missing file error stating: This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort. [45] File or directory does not exist. os.debian.52 The flash…
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How to shutdown Linux parted magic from terminal?

Once in a while I have to use parted magic to restore superblocks. I tried to execute in the terminal: shutdown -h now telinit 0 Both did not work, what else might be possible to shutdown Linux via command line?
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Custom Linux Timezone

I believe rdesktop 1.7.1 is sending Linux timezones (For example "EST") to the Windows client I regularly connect to (I am yet to find a way of seeing what Windows receives in the way of RDP settings in general, or just the timezone setting; Nor do…
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Regain access to seemingly frozen Live CD session

A few weeks back I started a machine up with a copy of Parted Magic, and loaded up some webpages in Firefox on it. Just last week, upon getting back to looking at the machine, I noticed that lxpanel had grown to a larger than normal memory size, and…
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