linux man page for delpart

Query: delpart

OS: linux

Section: 8

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DELPART(8)						      System Manager's Manual							DELPART(8)

NAME
delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
delpart device partition
DESCRIPTION
delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
OPTIONS
device Specify the disk device. partition Specify the partition number.
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 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. 11 Jan 2007 DELPART(8)
Related Man Pages
partx(8) - netbsd
partx(8) - v7
partx(8) - redhat
partx(8) - minix
partx(8) - osx
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