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I am the parted maintainer for Fedora. I also help with upstream a bit (I removed the CHS asserts for example). These are my own opinions:

These 'features' were removed because they were old, not well maintained, and don't fit into the core feature set of parted. You are better off relying on dedicated tools to do your filesystem specific operations.

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Perhaps I am better off using dedicated tools, but this was the only feature that made Gparted useful to me at all.

I can already resize partitions manually with fdisk; What I liked was being able to resize the partitions, grow the FS to match, and write it all to disk easily.

Just because libparted removed that functionality doesn't mean gparted has to remove it. I think gparted already uses a number of fileystem-specific tools; on Ubuntu 11.04 it depends on xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, and dosfstools. The only problem I can see is if libparted removed functionality that no other free software tools provides.

Back to cfdisk and mkfs.lol then.

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