centos man page for resizepart

Query: resizepart

OS: centos

Section: 8

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RESIZEPART(8)						       System Administration						     RESIZEPART(8)

NAME
resizepart - simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
resizepart device partition length
DESCRIPTION
resizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS
device Specify the disk device. partition Specify the partition number. length Specify the 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 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux February 2012 RESIZEPART(8)
Related Man Pages
partx(8) - linux
partx(8) - suse
findfs(8) - opensolaris
addpart(8) - opensolaris
findfs(8) - opendarwin
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