Parted Magic - a nice touch

I've been using Parted Magic to work on my disks, and after recently replacing my old 1.x live Parted Magic CD with 4.6, I'm enjoying the little things that PM brings to the project.

For instance, when you turn networking on with DHCP and the DHCP server to which you're connecting doesn't transmit nameserver info, Parted Magic uses OpenDNS to supply you with DNS lookup so you can actually use the Internet while in the live environment.

And since Parted Magic can generally run totally in RAM, once it loads the CD drawer opens and you can remove the optical disc. With the drive free, you can then can burn data onto a CD

The gFTP software is included, as is rsync and the graphical front-end Grsync.

There are utilities to see what hardware you have in the box, ways to test it, and generally a lot of useful stuff, and not just for Linux users.

One problem: I used Parted Magic to create HFS+ partitions, but the Mac on which I tried them did not recognize them. I guess there's some magic I don't possess (or which makes Parted Magic a little less magical).

I had intended to keep some Mac backups in HFS+ format on this drive, but I guess I'll have to do them either in ext3, FAT32 ... or on another drive.