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| 4f8d6551 | 1 | .\" delpart.8 -- man page for delpart |
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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 DELPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| 2f2d6528 | 6 | .SH NAME |
| 4f8d6551 | 7 | delpart \- tell the kernel to forget about a partition |
| 2f2d6528 | 8 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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9 | .B delpart |
| 10 | .I device partition | |
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11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 12 | .B delpart | |
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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. | |
| 2f2d6528 | 16 | |
| 4926bc36 | 17 | This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. |
| 2f2d6528 | 18 | |
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19 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 20 | .BR addpart (8), | |
| 21 | .BR fdisk (8), | |
| 22 | .BR parted (8), | |
| 23 | .BR partprobe (8), | |
| 24 | .BR partx (8) | |
| 86d62711 | 25 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 26 | The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 27 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |