The best open source alternative to Parted Magic is GParted. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Parted Magic and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Parted Magic are Rescuezilla, Clonezilla, SystemRescue and GNOME Disks.
Handle disk partitions efficiently with this GTK+ frontend. Create, delete, resize, or move partitions, and use GParted Live for full features on various OS platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. Supports NTFS resizing and enables disk cloning on x86 systems.
Parted magic is a linux distribution, not simply a piece of software
Free and straightforward disk cloning and imaging software that boots from a USB, supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Interoperable with Clonezilla and can recover and extract files. Includes partition editing, undeleting, and NTFS recovery. No installation needed.
Discover a free, open-source solution for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla ensures efficient large-scale deployment by simultaneously cloning over 40 computers. Supports unicasting and multicasting for versatile backup, based on Partclone and more for enhanced speed. Ideal for tech pros.
SystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Like Parted Magic, this is a Linux distribution packed with utilities. Some the same or similar. Critically missing, however, is Clonezilla. It includes a similar utility but that utility warns that its NTFS support is weak and not very trustworthy.
Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.
Unbootable, only package for existing OS, requires to e.g. own Linux to run.
Parted Magic is a live distro with a set of utilities that includes a partition editor, gnome-disk-utility is just a partition editor.
Parted Magic is complete, bootable operating environment for partition work and system recovery. Gnome-disk-utility is a piece of software that needs to be installed on an existing OS.
KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.
Parted Magic is complete, bootable operating environment for partition work and system recovery. The KDE Partition Manager is a piece of software that needs to be installed on an existing OS.
Redo Rescue is an easy-to-use backup and recovery solution that can restore a fully working system from a backup image, even to a blank new hard disk.
Ikki Boot is a Live DVD/USB multiboot which aims troubleshooting, disk partitioning, rescue, backup and restore data.
ALT Linux is a set of RPM-based, APT-managed operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel and Sisyphus package repository branches. ALT Linux Rescue is, well, the disaster recovery tool.
An up to date Fedora snapshot which contains a whole lot of useful utilities for data recovery, networking and others.
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Yes, Parted Magic is a Linux distribution, but "GParted Live" is also available as a Linux distribution not just as an application. Though Parted Magic has gigabytes worth of tools, but GParted Live is 366MB focusing on the partition manager.