PARTPROBE
Section: GNU Parted Manual (8)
Updated: March 18, 2002
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NAME
partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes
SYNOPSIS
partprobe
[-d]
[-s]
[devices...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
partprobe
command.
partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of
partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read
the partition table.
OPTIONS
This program uses short UNIX style options.
- -d
-
Don't update the kernel.
- -s
-
Show a summary of devices and their partitions.
- -h
-
Show summary of options.
- -v
-
Show version of program.
SEE ALSO
parted(8).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).