disk-utils/resizepart.8

   1 .\" resizepart.8 -- man page for resizepart
   2 .\" Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
   3 .\" Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
   4 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
   5 .TH RESIZEPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 resizepart \- tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
   8 .SH SYNOPSIS
   9 .B resizepart
  10 .I device partition length
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .B resizepart
  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.
  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 length
  27 The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
  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
  38 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.