ADDPART
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: January 2015
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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/.