gparted vs gpartedbin?

[TL7]

What is the difference between gparted and gpartedbin?

I noticed that gparted can also run without root privileges. The gpartedbin can not.

[Termy]

That is a very good question. I was honestly expecting a silly-simple reason, but there's no man page and not even any --help output, so I'm baffled. This calls for web searching. No doubt many others have asked the very same question.

[Flemur]

What is the difference between gparted and gpartedbin?
I noticed that gparted can also run without root privileges. The gpartedbin can not.

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$ gparted
Root privileges are required for running gparted.

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$ ls -al `which gparted`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6875 Feb  1  2016 /usr/sbin/gparted

gparted is a script that runs gpartedbin. You can get an idea about such stuff with things like :
ls -l `which gparted`
ls -l `which gpartedbin`

$ file `which gparted`
/usr/sbin/gparted: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
$
$ file `which gpartedbin`
/usr/sbin/gpartedbin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=45672ab884211decac751344283f6246944388fd, stripped

[Termy]

Oh, that explains the name. Weird. I've always just run gparted. lol

[Flemur]

cat `which gparted`

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#!/bin/sh
#     Name:  gparted
#  Purpose:  Perform appropriate startup of GParted executable gpartedbin.
#
#            The purpose of these startup methods is to prevent
#            devices from being automounted, and to ensure only one
#            instance of GParted is running.  File system problems can
#            occur if devices are mounted prior to the completion of
#            GParted's operations, or if multiple partition editing
#            tools are in use concurrently.
#
...

Edit: I'd like to congratulate the gparted guys on their good documentation, which is rare nowadays.
Most scripts in /usr/sbin don't have any documentation, others have one sentence that's about as useful as saying "this script does what the name sounds like it does".