You have a 'Hidden HPFF/NTFS' partition for your main partition. 

Gparted is a fine partition tool for general work but don't use it for
this sort of job. 

Use cfdisk instead. 
# cfdisk /dev/sdd

On 06/24/2017 09:08 AM, Markus Laire wrote:
> I just put debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-xfce.iso to 128 GB USB-stick and
> then tried to check the created partitions on a computer running
> Debian Strech.
>
> When I check partitions with "cat /proc/partitions" I get:
>    8       48  123240448 sdd
>    8       49    1896832 sdd1
>    8       50        416 sdd2
>
> So there is one main partition and one tiny one.
>
> But if I start GParted to modify partitions, it doesn't see main
> partition at all, only the tiny one. GParted claims that USB-stick
> has:
> - 1.04 MiB unallocated space
> - 416 KiB fat16 partition
> - 117.53 GiB unallocated space
>
> Why GParted doesn't see the main partition? I want to create another
> partition for persistence, but I'm afraid GParted will destroy main
> partition (which it doesn't see) if I try to do any changes.
>

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