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Section: System Administration (8)Updated: January 2015
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NAME
delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partitionSYNOPSIS
delpart device partitionDESCRIPTION
delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
SEE ALSO
addpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)AVAILABILITY
The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.