"PAUD: Linux bootdisk utility for system recovery and maintenance." (9 words)
PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility boot disk distribution. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. PAUD is known for its usefulness in partition maintenance and for rescue purposes, as it contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs.
The latest version of PAUD (1.0.4) has glibc-2.2.5, kernel 2.4.20, and support for up to 4 virtual consoles. The kernel has DMA support and has filesystem support for FAT/VFAT, EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS 3.5, and ReiserFS 3.6 filesystems. Parted supports creating, resizing, copying, and destroying of these filesystem types.
This version comes with a list of all the commands, which include internal commands of busybox as well as other commands, such as e2fsck, hdparm, mc, mkreiserfs-3.5, parted, reiserfsck, and tune2fs. It is important to note that SCSI support is not enabled in the kernel, but it can be easily implemented by making a custom kernel and putting it on the disk with the rootdisk.
For NTFS support, specifically the 'ntfsresize' program, an optional expansion floppy solution will be available shortly. Additionally, if you want to make reiserfs version 3.6, you can use parted.
Parted cannot create ext3 filesystems, although there is a simple way to do it in PAUD. First, create an ext2 partition from parted, then create a journal to convert it to ext3 with 'tune2fs -j.' DMA isn't enabled by default, but 'hdparm' fixes this problem by allowing you to enable DMA using the '-d1' option.
'MC' is a great way of transferring files between filesystems or for editing files if you need to. It can also be useful if you ever need to use PAUD for rescue purposes. Finally, if you get an error when mounting that a filesystem cannot be found on the device, a different filesystem may have been found. Type 'mount' to see if it was actually mounted or not.
In this latest release, the kernel was updated to 2.4.20 to support hard drives that are greater than 137GB. Overall, PAUD is a highly recommended Linux utility boot disk distribution that comes packed with useful features and commands that are vital for partition maintenance and rescue purposes.
The latest version of PAUD (1.0.4) has glibc-2.2.5, kernel 2.4.20, and support for up to 4 virtual consoles. The kernel has DMA support and has filesystem support for FAT/VFAT, EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS 3.5, and ReiserFS 3.6 filesystems. Parted supports creating, resizing, copying, and destroying of these filesystem types.
This version comes with a list of all the commands, which include internal commands of busybox as well as other commands, such as e2fsck, hdparm, mc, mkreiserfs-3.5, parted, reiserfsck, and tune2fs. It is important to note that SCSI support is not enabled in the kernel, but it can be easily implemented by making a custom kernel and putting it on the disk with the rootdisk.
For NTFS support, specifically the 'ntfsresize' program, an optional expansion floppy solution will be available shortly. Additionally, if you want to make reiserfs version 3.6, you can use parted.
Parted cannot create ext3 filesystems, although there is a simple way to do it in PAUD. First, create an ext2 partition from parted, then create a journal to convert it to ext3 with 'tune2fs -j.' DMA isn't enabled by default, but 'hdparm' fixes this problem by allowing you to enable DMA using the '-d1' option.
'MC' is a great way of transferring files between filesystems or for editing files if you need to. It can also be useful if you ever need to use PAUD for rescue purposes. Finally, if you get an error when mounting that a filesystem cannot be found on the device, a different filesystem may have been found. Type 'mount' to see if it was actually mounted or not.
In this latest release, the kernel was updated to 2.4.20 to support hard drives that are greater than 137GB. Overall, PAUD is a highly recommended Linux utility boot disk distribution that comes packed with useful features and commands that are vital for partition maintenance and rescue purposes.
What's New
Version 2.0.3: N/A