partx/delpart.8

   1 .\" delpart.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 DELPART 8 "11 Jan 2007"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 delpart \-
   8 simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
   9 .SH SYNOPSIS
  10 .B delpart device partition
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .B delpart
  13 is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.
  14
  15 This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
  16
  17 .SH OPTIONS
  18 .TP
  19 .BI device
  20 Specify the disk device.
  21 .TP
  22 .BI partition
  23 Specify the partition number.
  24
  25 .SH SEE ALSO
  26 .BR addpart (8),
  27 .BR fdisk (8),
  28 .BR parted (8),
  29 .BR partprobe (8),
  30 .BR partx (8)
  31 .SH AVAILABILITY
  32 The delpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
  33 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.