disk-utils/delpart.8

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