debian man page for partprobe

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OS: debian

Section: 8

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PARTPROBE(8)							 GNU Parted Manual						      PARTPROBE(8)

NAME
partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes
SYNOPSIS
partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command. partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the partition table.
OPTIONS
This program uses short UNIX style options. -d Don't update the kernel. -s Show a summary of devices and their partitions. -h Show summary of options. -v Show version of program.
SEE ALSO
parted(8).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). parted March 18, 2002 PARTPROBE(8)
Related Man Pages
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parted(8) - netbsd
parted(8) - osx
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