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| 4f8d6551 | 1 | .\" resizepart.8 -- man page for resizepart |
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2 | .\" Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> |
| 3 | .\" Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. | |
| 4 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
| 4f8d6551 | 5 | .TH RESIZEPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| 8863a802 | 6 | .SH NAME |
| 4f8d6551 | 7 | resizepart \- tell the kernel about the new size of a partition |
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8 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 9 | .B resizepart | |
| 10 | .I device partition length | |
| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 12 | .B resizepart | |
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13 | tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. |
| 14 | The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl. | |
| 8863a802 | 15 | |
| 4926bc36 | 16 | This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. |
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17 | |
| 18 | .SH PARAMETERS | |
| 19 | .TP | |
| 20 | .I device | |
| 4f8d6551 | 21 | The disk device. |
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22 | .TP |
| 23 | .I partition | |
| 4f8d6551 | 24 | The partition number. |
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25 | .TP |
| 26 | .I length | |
| 4f8d6551 | 27 | The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
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28 | |
| 29 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 30 | .BR addpart (8), | |
| 31 | .BR delpart (8), | |
| 32 | .BR fdisk (8), | |
| 33 | .BR parted (8), | |
| 34 | .BR partprobe (8), | |
| 35 | .BR partx (8) | |
| 36 | .SH AVAILABILITY | |
| 37 | The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from | |
| d673b74e | 38 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |