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1 | .\" partx.8 -- |
| 2 | .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc. | |
| 4 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
| 5 | .TH PARTX 8 "11 Jan 2007" | |
| 6 | .SH NAME | |
| 7 | partx \- | |
| 8 | telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions. | |
| 9 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
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10 | .B partx |
| 11 | .RB [ \-a | \-d | \-l ] | |
| 12 | .RB [ \-\-type | |
| 13 | .IR TYPE ] | |
| 14 | .RB [ \-\-nr | |
| 15 | .IR M-N ] | |
| 16 | .RI [ partition ] | |
| 17 | .I disk | |
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18 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 19 | Given a block device ( | |
| 20 | .B disk | |
| 21 | ) and a partition table | |
| 22 | .B type | |
| 23 | , try to parse the partition table, and list the | |
| 24 | contents. Optionally add or remove partitions. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions | |
| 27 | is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel | |
| 28 | about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 31 | .TP | |
| 32 | .B \-a | |
| 33 | add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions | |
| 34 | .TP | |
| 35 | .B \-d | |
| 36 | delete specified or all partitions | |
| 37 | .TP | |
| 38 | .B \-l | |
| 176303e0 | 39 | list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors. |
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40 | .TP |
| 41 | .BI --type " TYPE" | |
| 42 | Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt. | |
| 43 | .TP | |
| 44 | .BI --nr " M-N" | |
| 45 | Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4). | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 48 | .BR addpart (8), | |
| 49 | .BR delpart (8), | |
| 50 | .BR fdisk (8), | |
| 51 | .BR parted (8), | |
| 52 | .BR partprobe (8) | |
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53 | |
| 54 | .SH AVAILABILITY | |
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55 | The partx command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| 56 | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |