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pinga123
The thing that confuses me everytime is why do they create new things rather than upgrading existing one.
For example it could have been solved by giving new version of fdisk like fdisk1 or something.
fdisk is meant to manage raw MSDOS partitions and related types, and has never done anything else. If you think it would be so easy to nail new and unrelated functionality onto the side, you're welcome to, but if you make even the most minor error, people will crucify you for ruining their data. Writing a partition editor isn't something to be done in an offhand manner.
Microsoft mostly still uses this boot schema too, making it very hard to avoid, and the better alternatives aren't universally supported.
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Now they have included gdisk and parted which is kind of redundant .
Not really. gdisk is GNOME I believe, while parted runs anywhere, doesn't even need a GUI. That's crucial if you want to edit partitions in rescue-cd conditions, or do any kind of automatic partition editing.
Anyway, you're mistaking the forest for the trees again. It's not the partition
editor which overcomes the limitations -- the partition
editor doesn't get stored in the boot sector, after all. It's the partition types themselves. MSDOS partitions have these limitations. Some more modern partition editors can write GPT partition tables, which overcome these limits.