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ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)
NAME
addpart - a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of a new partition.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on the hard drive.
PARAMETERS
device Specify the disk device.
partition
Specify the partition number.
start Specify the beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length Specify 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 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux January 2007 ADDPART(8)
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