I realize this is probably just seen as noise.  But I think its
important that everyone here understand.

Growpart supports using either fdisk or gdisk. But I have recently
considered deleting the gdisk support.

I'm curious why fdisk is seen as "an old package". fdisk/sfdisk supports
GPT partition tables and has for several years.

Also,
 * it is part of util-linux source (which is Essential).
 * It is maintained and updated (107 commits reference fdisk in util linux 
since Jan 1, 2019.  gpt-fdisk has 25 total commits in that time frame. As much 
infrastructure is shared with other util-linux tools, that count is not 
complete).
 * fdisk (installed 505, size 119712) is smaller than gdisk (installed 860, 
size 214516) and has fewer dependencies.
 * In my opinion, sfdisk is dramatically more usable than sgdisk.
 * I'd even argue that the ui of fdisk is better than gdisk.

If the goal is to have one "partitioner", then fdisk/sfdisk is probably
the one to keep.

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