[Bug 1490608] Re: parted allows to fix broken GPT only interactively

[Oliver Grawert]

ugh, indeed i didnt mean to have the cmdline option hooked to the text handler but simply have it run whatever gets executed to fix the gpt without interaction or anything ... 
we currently need to use an awfully hackish workaround to do the auto-resize on snappy images (store original table, create a brand new gpt and restore the old table) and i would like to somehow fix this before the next stable snappy release (in 4-8 weeks). i could indeed switch to gdisk but i'd really rather like to use parted as it is the traditionally used partitioning tool in ubuntu.

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Title:
  parted allows to fix broken GPT only interactively

Status in parted package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  when physically resizing a disk (i.e. because it is a kvm image where
  you dd zeros to the end or because you dd'ed an image from a smaller
  disk to a bigger one) the GPT backup at the end of the device sits in
  the wrong sectors ...

  while parted offers you a yes/no question in interactive mode to fix
  this, there is no way to make use of this feature when using "parted
  -s" (scripted mode). parted should get an option to fix the GPT even
  when using it non-interactively i.e. from a "grow rootfs at first boot
  to full disk size" script.

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