NAME¶

delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS¶

delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION¶

delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

OPTIONS¶

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

SEE ALSO¶

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

AVAILABILITY¶

The delpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.