[parted-devel] A short rant about parted

[Phillip Susi]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:10:01 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> As you may not know, we have written a library for virtual machine
> disk manipulation called libguestfs (http://libguestfs.org/).  Part of
> this library allows you to manipulate the partition table.  For this
> we use parted.  However parted is very annoying to use in practice.

You should be using libparted directly then rather than executing the
parted utility.