NAME¶

addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS¶

addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION¶

addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.

This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS¶

device

partition

start

length

SEE ALSO¶

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

REPORTING BUGS¶

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY¶

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.