[thomastjeffery]

To reiterate the point you are replying to:

Using a command-line partitioning utility like parted or fdisk is more risky to interface with, at least for the layman.

Am I using GPT tables? How many blocks for this partition again? What partition type am I marking this? Am I using a capital G to denote gigabyte? A plus sign before or after the number? What is the current state? What is the planned state?

These aren't particularly difficult questions, but they are more easily answered when using a GUI tool like GParted than they are when using fdisk or parted.

GParted is an excellent GUI. I personally haven't seen a more reliable and usable partition utility. It's my first and last recommendation, no matter what the user's background, and it will likely continue to be for a very long time.

[anthk]

Cfdisk. Much better and still terminal based.

[thomastjeffery]

Better than fdisk? Yes. Better than GParted? I don't think so.