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ADDPART(8) | System Administration | ADDPART(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 partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS¶
SEE ALSO¶
AVAILABILITY¶
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
January 2007 | util-linux |