Linux manual pages Section 8  

Name

partx — telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

Synopsis

partx [ −a | −d | −l ] [ −−type TYPE ] [ −−nr M−N ] [partition] disk

DESCRIPTION

Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or remove partitions.

This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

OPTIONS

−a

add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions

−d

delete specified or all partitions

−l

list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.

−−type TYPE

Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.

−−nr M−N

Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).

SEE ALSO

addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)

AVAILABILITY

The partx 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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