disk-utils/addpart.8

   1 .\" addpart.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 ADDPART 8 "January 2007" "util-linux" "System Administration"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 addpart \-
   8 simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
   9 .SH SYNOPSIS
  10 .B addpart
  11 .I device partition start length
  12 .SH DESCRIPTION
  13 .B addpart
  14 is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
  15
  16 This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
  17
  18 .SH PARAMETERS
  19 .TP
  20 .I device
  21 Specify the disk device.
  22 .TP
  23 .I partition
  24 Specify the partition number.
  25 .TP
  26 .I start
  27 Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
  28 .TP
  29 .I length
  30 Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
  31
  32 .SH SEE ALSO
  33 .BR delpart (8),
  34 .BR fdisk (8),
  35 .BR parted (8),
  36 .BR partprobe (8),
  37 .BR partx (8)
  38 .SH AVAILABILITY
  39 The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
  40 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.