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| 4f8d6551 | 1 | .\" addpart.8 -- man page for addpart |
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2 | .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> |
| 3 | .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc. | |
| 4 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
| 4f8d6551 | 5 | .TH ADDPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| 2f2d6528 | 6 | .SH NAME |
| 4f8d6551 | 7 | addpart \- tell the kernel about the existence of a partition |
| 2f2d6528 | 8 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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9 | .B addpart |
| 10 | .I device partition start length | |
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11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 12 | .B addpart | |
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13 | tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. |
| 14 | The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. | |
| 2f2d6528 | 15 | |
| 4926bc36 | 16 | This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. |
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17 | |
| 18 | .SH PARAMETERS | |
| 19 | .TP | |
| 50a468cf | 20 | .I device |
| 4f8d6551 | 21 | The disk device. |
| 2f2d6528 | 22 | .TP |
| 50a468cf | 23 | .I partition |
| 4f8d6551 | 24 | The partition number. |
| 2f2d6528 | 25 | .TP |
| 50a468cf | 26 | .I start |
| 4f8d6551 | 27 | The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| 2f2d6528 | 28 | .TP |
| 50a468cf | 29 | .I length |
| 4f8d6551 | 30 | The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
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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) | |
| 86d62711 | 38 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 39 | The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 40 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |