centos man page for resizepart

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)