DELPART
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 11 Jan 2007
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NAME
delpart -
simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
delpart
device partition
DESCRIPTION
delpart
is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.
This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
OPTIONS
- device
-
Specify the disk device.
- partition
-
Specify the partition number.
SEE ALSO
addpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The delpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.