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/.