The GNU libparted library is an extremely important partitioning tool for Linux and some other operating systems (OSes). Programs such as the text-mode GNU Parted (aka parted) and the GUI GNOME Partition Editor (aka GParted) are built atop libparted, as are the partitioning tools employed by many Linux distributions’ installation routines.
Unfortunately, although libparted has many very useful features, it also has some bugs and limitations. Some of these motivated me to write my own partitioning tool for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks, GPT fdisk. Another issue motivates this Web page: GParted sometimes claims that disks have no partitions, even though other tools, such as the Linux kernel and the fdisk utility, clearly see partitions on the disk. This problem has been cropping up a lot lately on Web forums. Continue reading »
