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ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)
NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
device The disk device.
partition
The partition number.
start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The addpart 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 ADDPART(8)