ADDPART
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 11 Jan 2007
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NAME
addpart -
simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
addpart
device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart
is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS
- device
-
Specify the disk device.
- partition
-
Specify the partition number.
- start
-
Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
- length
-
Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
delpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.