After a bit of discussion with Jim Meyering I've decided to withdraw
this and rewrite it based on libparted. Using the parted command line
tool is just too unpredictable.
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
See what it can do:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html