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