So I figured out why this is happening. It seems that gparted syncs the partition table on startup, just to make sure that it can. To do this, libparted removes all existing partitions, and then re-adds them. It seems that unity decides to un-blacklist a drive if you unplug it and plug it back in.
So I figured out why this is happening. It seems that gparted syncs the partition table on startup, just to make sure that it can. To do this, libparted removes all existing partitions, and then re-adds them. It seems that unity decides to un-blacklist a drive if you unplug it and plug it back in.