Linux manual pages Section 8  

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/.


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Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzakredhat.com>
Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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