It is available for download the new version of SystemRescueCd , the famous live distro based on Gentoo and designed specifically for data recovery and partition the hard disk. The new version released by the French team is 1.0.4, does not introduce major changes from the previous release but promises to solve some small (but very annoying) bug. Here is a summary of the news:

Updated the default kernel to Linux 2.6.25.7 with Reiser4fs; fixed problem with Samba to two bad houses in the UTF8 character set, fixed the LVM package - LVM 1.x support was broken, fixed the LVM service - now it starts after mdadm so That LVM on raid works; updated NTFS-3G to 1.2531 (NTFS full read-write support); updated the Btrfs file system support to 0.15 (kernel module and utilities); ability to boot Linux from an LVM disk; added option 'root = auto 'to boot the first Linux system found on the hard drive, added' MHDD 'boot floppy disk image (low-level hard disk diagnostic tool).

You can see the full changelog at this address .