1 .\" delpart.8 -- man page for delpart
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 DELPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
7 delpart \- tell the kernel to forget about a partition
13 asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified \fIpartition\fR
14 (a number) on the specified \fIdevice\fR.
15 The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.
17 This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
26 The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
27 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.