Well I have expected GParted once invoked as root to carry out partitioning
tasks and NOTHING else.
The live session could run from a DVD or from RAM for example,..
Writing arbitrary data to / is my concern.
I have granted unprivileged users access to GParted to carry out device
partitioning
A disk partitioning and formatting tool, such as GParted, requires root
privilege to be able to create new partition tables, format disks and
partitions, update the Linux kernel with the changes, etc. By its very
nature GParted can completely overwrite everything on a disk device.
With this in
