disk-utils/addpart.8

   1 .\" addpart.8 -- man page for addpart
   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 ADDPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 addpart \- tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
   8 .SH SYNOPSIS
   9 .B addpart
  10 .I device partition start length
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .B addpart
  13 tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.
  14 The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.
  15
  16 This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
  17
  18 .SH PARAMETERS
  19 .TP
  20 .I device
  21 The disk device.
  22 .TP
  23 .I partition
  24 The partition number.
  25 .TP
  26 .I start
  27 The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
  28 .TP
  29 .I length
  30 The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
  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)
  38 .SH AVAILABILITY
  39 The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
  40 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.