[parted-devel] pointless superuser warning

[Anant Narayanan]

> Whats the point of such warnings? I'm sure parted cant open the block devicenode
> anyway due to -EPERM from the kernel.

That warning was specifically added to reduce the support questions from
people who were trying to run parted in a non-root environment. I think
it is essential to at least inform the users beforehand that the
operations they are about to perform may actually not take place at all.

- Anant