1 .\" addpart.8 -- man page for addpart
2 .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
3 .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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5 .TH ADDPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
7 addpart \- tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
10 .I device partition start length
13 tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.
14 The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.
16 This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
27 The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
30 The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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/.