NAME¶

resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition

SYNOPSIS¶

resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION¶

resizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.

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

PARAMETERS¶

device

The disk device.

partition

The partition number.

length

The new 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 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.