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ADDPART
Section: System Administration (8)Updated: January 2015
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NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partitionSYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start lengthDESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
- device
- The disk device.
- partition
- The partition number.
- start
- The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
- length
-
The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.