NAME¶

resizepart - simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS¶

resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION¶

resizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

PARAMETERS¶

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

length

Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO¶

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

AVAILABILITY¶

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