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

The disk device.

partition

The partition number.

start

The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

length

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

SEE ALSO¶

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

AVAILABILITY¶

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