DELPART(8) System Administration DELPART(8)
NAME
delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition
SYNOPSIS
delpart device partition
DESCRIPTION
delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper
around the "del partition" ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
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 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux January 2015 DELPART(8)
