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ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
addpart device partition start length
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.
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).
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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util-linux January 2015 ADDPART(8)
Pages that refer to this page: delpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8)