RHEL 5 - fdisk and parted bug?

[allan.concejo at thomsonreuters.com]

Hi,

I'm getting inconsistent results when using parted to create/remove partitions on a USB drive.
parted seems to work fine after running fdisk to remove partitions on the USB. Sometimes however, parted would run successfully, but the partition won't show up in fdisk. Other times, it would prompt for partition type, although fat16 was already included in the options. Any feedback will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Allan